A quick question for everyone:
"A good person is a good person regardless of his or her religious beliefs. A bad person is a bad person regardless of his or her religious beliefs": True or False?
Just curious.
2006-06-29 04:44:58 · 53 answers · asked by XYZ 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I almost agree.
A good person is a good person regardless of his or her religious beliefs.
A bad person needs to be educated more to find the good qualities that every human being undoubtably has inside him or her.
2006-06-29 07:23:23 · answer #1 · answered by Thinx 5 · 5⤊ 4⤋
Generally true.
But if someone otherwise a good person , turns fanatic and thinks that slitting my throat for not converting is a good thing, then what . Ew.
I thought the answer is simple-"true". But the more I think about it I think a good person can be defined in more than one way.
Still if the options are only true or false then - true.
(I hope definition of a good person is not based on religious view of "good" but universally accepted defnition of humane)
2006-06-30 03:17:47 · answer #2 · answered by Karma 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends, if you don't believe that religion is important then everything is relative. Does the sun set? Depends on how you look at the question. During the Roman empire, it was common for parents to give there sons over to be tutored as male lovers at a young age. Was it wrong to them? Is it wrong now? Like I said, most is relative, just because a person grew up in a culture that eats humans are they bad? Who's standards are you judging by? Yours? Society's? Culture's? God's? No I don't think a good person is a good person no matter what, I believe that we all want be good and loved but we are by nature evil.
2006-06-29 04:53:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
True. Religion has nothing to do with the goodness of your heart. You can be a good person and not believe in the almighty and people who think it does are narrow minded and ignorant and if they DO believe in "God" they're hypocrites because a true believer accepts people as they are, so I guess that makes them "bad" people due to the belief that they are superior or "better" people just because they believe in a higher power. Sorry to burst your bubble people, you're not any better than the non-believers.
2006-06-29 04:53:59 · answer #4 · answered by boriblueyez 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True-ish. But I don't believe that by simply being a good person you are going to go to heaven. So religious belief is important.
2006-06-29 04:51:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
False
2006-06-29 04:50:43 · answer #6 · answered by Proverbs2-2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good people make good choices and bad people make bad choices. Good people have some kind of moral guidelines to go by whether they have a religion or not. Even though some people can be more good by nature than some people are by grace does not negate for everyone to accept the grace of God that is offered to us through the blood atonement of Jesus Christ.
2006-06-29 04:52:35 · answer #7 · answered by mas2drummers 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely True.
2006-06-29 05:03:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
True...religious beliefs don't define a person, a person actions do
2006-06-29 04:48:29 · answer #9 · answered by Maestro 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
False...
Good & bad is a relative term...
In the Mid east a good man beats his wife & makes her walk 6 steps behind him.
You have to base good & bad against a set "mark" or consistent standard. All must use & be compared to it.
It does come down to your faith & world view.
The world says if you think you're good, you are. That's just a lie.
2006-06-29 05:01:27 · answer #10 · answered by young_oc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see all things through the word of God in the bible...that is my measure for all things. The word of God tells me there is none good, not one. Therefore, there is no "good" person. We all have sin. No one is all good or all bad anyway. And if we each have sin, which we do....that pretty much answers that question!
2006-06-29 05:12:45 · answer #11 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋