Agree or disagree on this moral question: Murder is wrong only if there's a god who says it's wrong?

Answer 1

What's ironic about this question is that god itself ordered murders to be regularly committed in his name. So even if there were a god, why would it be wrong if he says so? That would make him fallible because it would contradict what he himself has done and asked to be done, and then, well, existence would cease to exist.

Regardless of that irony, yes, murder is always wrong. The concept of right and wrong has nothing to do with god or religion. It has to do with basic human rights, the right to life, and it's not up to anyone else to take that away from another person.

Great question! :-)

Answer 2

This is a great question. Of course murder is wrong. Otherwise society would crumble, people would find no other way to deal with anger. Murder by its nature is not helpful for the human race. And you don't need a God to accept this.

However, many of the rules we've cooked up, in which there is no victim, are based on senseless religious doctrine. Why is there no gay marriage? Christian belief.

Answer 3

I'm gonna have to disagree. Its a question of morals not spirituality. Morally and Spiritually murder is wrong.

Answer 4

This is actually one of my biggest fears. The religious people always tend to think that morals are given to us by God. They even usually state that people without Jesus in their hearts can't truly have morals.

My fear in that is this: If it would be proven beyond a doubt that there is no God, no Jesus and no Higher Power, what will these religious people start doing then? Shoot eachother? Live without any form of moral code?

To answer: murder is of course wrong, unless George Bush tells us it's needed.

Answer 5

Partially agree.

Murder (or any so-called sin) is wrong only if humanity applies a moralistic judgment to it. God has nothing to do with it, except as an entity to which humanity ascribes human qualities such as judgment, anger, condemnation, indignation. These do not exist as applied to God, who is not an entity or a being but rather the energy source and process of life. Not a judger of humanity.

All actions have consequences, but I believe that we receive these consequences in the here and now via the universal law of attraction, where we reap what we sow, in simple terms. The vibrations we emit (via thoughts, beliefs, words, actions) we receive back in one form or another. Do something negative to someone and in someway, it will come back to you. Murder someone and maybe you will lose a close family member to cancer, for example. The "what goes around, comes around" principle.

Answer 6

Disagree. Logic shows us that it would be counterproductive for a society to allow its citizens to murder one another. Furthermore, even athiests have empathy and sympathy, showing that the human mind is naturally abhorrent to the thought of inflicting suffering upon another.

Maybe some believers are just murderers who need the fear of God to keep their desires in check. And yet they feel that they are the civilized ones. Creepy.

Answer 7

Wow! What a very interesting question! I actually think I agree. I'm a Christian, so I believe that it is wrong because of the Ten Commandments, but how very wise of you to ask such a question. Very interesting. I would think that sex outside of marriage, murder, stealing, lying, etc. would all be acceptable things if you don't believe in something that would tell you otherwise, because why else, besides society, would you find it wrong?

Answer 8

I disagree. And there have been MANY instances where either murder was committed in the name of a god/God or where it was justified by a god/God. So I'm not sure that believing in a god/God prohibits one from murdering, particularly when it is in his/His name

Answer 9

Disagree. No one has the right to take away the life of someone else. The only execption to that is if someone takes the life of someone else, especially a child. They deserve to loose their life in forfeit for their actions. I don't think that they should be allowed to sit in prison and file appeal after appeal. If it was totally proven that they did the crime, they should have swift and fair punishment. But for someone to murder someone else, just because, that will always be wrong in my book, no matter if God was involved or not.

Answer 10

i've got confidence that an abortion is the ending of a human life. i've got confidence that there are situations whilst the regulation can justify that maximum detrimental action. conflict , the dying penalty , self protection to call some. i think of abortion on call for is misguided yet i will enable for some specific circumstances whilst it is regrettably the spectacular subject to do. i think of that this form of determination would desire to be taken care of as what it is , the tip of a life. no longer purely a convenience subject yet subject to the rights of the unborn being seen. i do no longer carry the life of the unborn in larger regard than the mum.