Is it okay to not believe in a religion, but believe only in the lessons it teaches us on how to be a good person?
2006-09-01 08:45:36 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If there is a god he or she is a forgiving one so do not worry. It OK and besides most religion is dogma anyway. There are plenty of lessons to be learned in religion. But there are other ways to learn how to be a good person with having to weed out al the self-rightness stuff. Read about ethics for a start and leave the fairy-tales to the masses.
2006-09-01 08:55:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is. You can get life lessons from a range of sources. There are a lot of things to learn form the Greek, Norse and Egyptian mythologies that you can use but don't have to believe the religion itself. Same goes for any of the "modern" religions.
2006-09-01 08:57:45 · answer #2 · answered by Sage Bluestorm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that would be called spirituality. You can believe in something ( a concept) and not believe the religion.
I believe in the idea of magic as used in wicca but I am not the religion itself. I practice a religion that has nothing to do with wicca. Religion and spirituality are two different things.
2006-09-01 09:42:36 · answer #3 · answered by Nelly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember there was no religion in the first place. It was still leader-followers from time immemorial. All you have done is come 360 deg full circle invent religion, then question religion, then accept leadership without religion is probably correct etc etc and so on and so forth
2006-09-01 08:56:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it really is humorous that you need to say that. i assumed that way for a lengthy time period. again even as i replaced into atheist, I allowed my daughter to pass to Sunday college with the neighbor because i assumed what's the more severe that ought to take position? She learn some good values? nicely the basically right handed off. She generally happening Christ and she or he evangelized to her Mommy (the actually one i does no longer totally push away) So she helped sow the seeds that were planted in iciness soil before via some good females.
2016-12-06 02:54:57 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not to the people who believe in the religion
2006-09-01 08:47:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why not? it is you own beliefs and nobody can ever tell you how to think and feel about anything. They might try to persuade you or brain wash you. I think that if you are genuinly a good person and you try not to hurt anyone else, then why would you need a religion?
2006-09-01 08:50:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This depends on the definition of your okay. If it is okay for you to dwell in hellfire then you are okay to believe what ever you like.
2006-09-01 09:04:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure. Of course, how do you convince others to follow the same path and not kill you?
2006-09-01 08:52:03 · answer #9 · answered by The Man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes become a humanist....this is the best answer...you live by the rules of conscience..look up humanism on the net...
2006-09-01 08:53:55 · answer #10 · answered by notgnal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋