Here's something I'm wondering

[rocklobster]

Atheists often say we “created” religion. Here’s my rebuttal: If that’s the case, then why are humans “wired” for religion of any kind? And why are we so rigid against change to the religion? (I’m not saying we should change religion to match popular views.)
Is this a good rebuttal?

 

[Nooj]

How would you respond if I said that I don’t know?

 

[Poetpeace]

Atheists often say we “created” religion. Here’s my rebuttal: If that’s the case, then why are humans “wired” for religion of any kind? And why are we so rigid against change to the religion? (I’m not saying we should change religion to match popular views.)
Is this a good rebuttal?

I would say that’s a good rebuttal - but beg the question why do we get some people who are quite content with living unquestioning lives and never feeling anything towards any faith of religion? (Thats more a query on my part )

 

[Heuchler]

In my opinion, the atheist could then easily say that it is because we are so wired for religion that we felt compelled to create it and that this compulsion came not from God but from evolution.

My answer to the accusation that we just created religion is if we created religion, why doesn’t God the Father resemble us more? We have a God who comes in the silence and not in the roar of everything. A God who says He is love, unlike the uncaring gods of old who only cared for lust. God who is unlike any human. We say that our God is one with three. That is just insane sounding. Why doesn’t our religion simply fit with the old polytheist traditions which explained the world. Why isn’t our God anything like Zeus, or osiris. Our God cares about us, the other gods simply used us.

 

[prodigalson2011]

Atheists often say we “created” religion. Here’s my rebuttal: If that’s the case, then why are humans “wired” for religion of any kind? And why are we so rigid against change to the religion? (I’m not saying we should change religion to match popular views.)
Is this a good rebuttal?

Another good question to ask them would be why would man create a God and religion that forbade him to do some of the things he is most inclined to do? (Fornication, pride, self-indulgence, concern for self over others, etc.)
People say religion is escapism, but if you really take Christianity seriously, it is one of the hardest paths to follow.

 

[Neildown]

Humans HAVE created religions, but Judaism was not. Christianity, half & half I suppose. [Jesus was human but He was just as much God]

Man’s inclination to worship the unknown is really a nice testament to the fact that we desire some sort of salvation or redemption. If its part of our nature, all the better, because it had to have been included in us for a reason.