can anyone explain why Christianity and other world religions look at astrology as sinful?

and can someone give me another answer other than because God said it was bad in the bible.


thanks.

N0help4u

Just as WG said if a fortune teller says we will do something then we lean toward doing that because we think they have the answers when maybe it is what we will do but maybe it isn't the thing we should do.
Like if they say you will buy a house in this neighborhood you are influenced to buy a house in that neighborhood. But maybe that is a bad choice.

Chey5782

I think that's a pretty subjective thing to say. My fortune teller told me once that she saw my life surrounded by children. A year later I gave a baby up for adoption. That's like saying people are too stupid to make their own choices. It's a commonly known fact that the tides are effected by the pull of the moon, that's a fact. But who is to say that the orbits of the bits of molecules around us don't effect some of the ways we do things. They effect the female menstrual cycle. and these are purely physical things that we see. I'm still kind of on the wall about astrology, but I don't discount the possibilities. They did find cellular fossils on Mars after all. I think you are giving people too much credit for being sheep, not all of us are, that's just too generalized a statement to convince me. Though I am not discounting it, for a LOT of people the very suggestion IS enough to go act like a sheep. Just not me.

N0help4u

I agree many (not all) people do allow it too influence their life too much. Like wondergirl said about her mil never leaving Chicago because the foretune teller told her she would live in Chicago.
I do believe that the stars do have an impact on our lives somewhat. I did mention that I do believe that.

ebaines

I don't think the astrologers give a hoot about how astronomers classify the planets. No one knew that Pluto even exists until 1930, so you really have to wonder if Pluto is important to astrologists how they ever could claim to make accurate predictions prior to that! Similarly, Neptune wasn't discovered until 1846 - does that mean that all astrology prior to that was bogus?

Astrologers also don't care how astronomers classify the constellations. In astrology there are 12 signs of the zodiac, presumably corresponding to twelve constellations that the sun and planets pase through along the ecliptic. But in fact there are 13 constellations on the ecliptic, as defined by astronomers - the sun is actually in the constellation Ophiucus in late November and early December. I have to wonder how many people think they were born under Sagittarius when in fact they are Ophiucans??

Full disclosure - I do not believe in astrology at all - no credible study has ever been done to show that it is anything but wishful thinking.

N0help4u

yeah the thing is the planets are going to have whatever effect they have no matter what man says or calls anything.
I believe they do have an influence but I really wonder how astrology can even be accurate on predicting the future since there are too many variables and even with shifting of planets and changes in calenders how accurate can they be?
I really do believe there is something to your astrology sign having a part in who you are but telling the future gets too sketchy.