sin, crime, kill, plunder, lust, love, hate, bless & curse. who care there is no accountability or consequences. Isn't that logical?
2006-09-26 05:21:18 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes. I agree with you. If there is no God of the universe, whose to say what is right and wrong.
2006-09-26 05:24:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
How childish you are, judging by this question! I am free to do whatever I want, but that doesn't include killing or plundering. I don't want to do such things. Men have laws about that, and a civilized man doesn't want to do it anyhow. Pope Urban II told Christian soldiers to go to Jeruselam and take it from the Moslems in the late 11th century, and they killed and plundered enough to shame anyone decent. There were several of these Crusades. One forgot Jeruselam and plundered other cities nearer than it. Sin is only what some priests arbitrarily decided was wrong, and they had ulterior motives. Lust is natural, so priests try to use it to control people. It is no priest's business what I do with a consenting woman. I don't need his approval. It is foolish to say that only religious peoiple behave well, when anyone can see so many of them who behave so badly. The most mature men need no childish rewards and punishments to motivate them. One uses a sugar cube and a whip on a horse; gifts and spanking on children; or Heaven and Hell on immature, gullible adults. I do some things priests say are wrong, but they are full of $#!+, and I say sin is what hurts other people, not costume, diet or sex.
2006-09-26 05:44:06 · answer #2 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To begin with, I refuse to consider killing just as the same as shoplifting. Besides, there is no afterlife, but there is a police force, a justice and a legal system in THIS life. Also, I don't feel like killing or doing anything of that kind. A murderer is not an unbeliever. A murderer is an immoral person. What's the connection in your mind between the inexistence of an afterlife and the need to kill? Is the belief in heaven the ONLY thing keeping you from becoming a criminal? If so, I hope you never give up faith. But think that prisons are full with religious people. And some people even kill in the name of God...
Your reasoning is NOT logical, I'm afraid...
2006-09-26 05:29:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like the rest of the responders said, there are consequences in this world too. Steal, kill etc, and you will very likely end up in jail. Lust, hate etc, and you will be miserable inside. Hating someone takes a great deal of energy, letting go makes things better.
You question indicates you have a sense of right and wrong written on your heart. You instinctively know some things are wrong. You are asking why not do them, since there is no higher reason to not do so.
A much better question would be why should you give to charity or help others, if there is no reward. Why should you give hard earned dollars away if there is no reward for doing so?
As a believer, I believe that helping others stores up treasures in Heaven, since I am obeying God.
2006-09-26 06:23:41 · answer #4 · answered by Theodore R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are social animals and our morality is an extension of the actions we must refrain from for the good of the larger group. Things your parents teach you become engrained into you as proper behaviour, going against it is inherently difficult for you if you love and respect your parents because anything they have condemned you see yourself as disappointing them or the victims of your selfishness being them or like them.
On top of this the larger social group enforces a broader morality by punishing transgressors, if you value comfortable living, some money, a nice place to live, seeing friends and family etc. you do not do as you please becasue all these can be taken away. This has been the way for thousands of years, all early civilisations had laws of thigns that could be done or not done and enforced them. I beleive that the idea of Heaven and Hell came as a enforcement for punishment beyond death. If there were law transgresors that were difficult to catch or did not fear death it wouold make sense to make up a harsher punishment than they themselves could inflict, one they didn't need to prove.
Even without an afterlife there is this life and people know the consequences that occur from straying from the rules of society, though some will think it worth it while others will get away with merely what they can.
2006-09-26 05:33:03 · answer #5 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you still have to be accountable to other people for your actions. There's a thing called the social contract. Without it, anarchy and crime would prevail. You can see this easily in societies where the rule of law has broken down. You can also see it when large indigenous populations are murdered (genocide) so that corporations can get hold of the land they farmed on for centuries. The military elites who are doing the dirty work for those corporations seldom have any "bottom line" in terms of what they will and will not do. "Kill a priest today" was a common saying of the soldiery during the Salvadoran genocide in which Bishop Romero gave his life for his indigenous parishoners.
If enough people in a society subscribe to this dog-eat-dog ethic, life literally becomes not worth living because life is not just houses, cars and food - it is other people, too.
2006-09-26 05:28:57 · answer #6 · answered by Melinda C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Religion does not have the market on morality and ethics. All social animals on this planet have a moral code they live by, if they didn't the species would not survive.
There are many examples of social animals that show empathy and compassion for each other. Just look at our closest cousins the Apes. While they don't share all our moral characteristics they share most of them. Its a survival trait that ensures the species will be able to reproduce and pass on it's genetic information to future generations.
2006-09-26 05:24:25 · answer #7 · answered by trouthunter 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That premise is only logical if you don't love anyone and you assume no one else will stop you from harming them. Your life will be short, painful, and not at all the pleasure dome you've imagined.
Human beings generally want to live peaceably with one another, but life has pain, disappointments, shortages, and humiliation. We engage in harmlessness, encouragement, economics, and courtesy to help manage all of these inevitabilities. When things are going well, we get peace. When the difficulties outpace our efforts to manage them, people lash out. People frequently lash out for a while, but eventually they grow weary of it and we again try to find the least harmful ways to get along.
2006-09-26 05:27:06 · answer #8 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a load of crap. If there's no afterlife then it's logical that we should try and make the most of the life we do have. The best way to do that is to treat others as you wish to be treated, for the good of society as a whole and, therefore, for your own good as a part of that society.
2006-09-26 05:35:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because deep in your heart u know that there is an afterlife and u will have to pay the consequences but the thing is just because u don't kill some1 or rob them or any of the other stuff , doesn't mean u won't go to hell
2006-09-26 05:25:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even if there wasn't a heaven I'd rather go through life with loved ones and friends. If there was no God I'd still try to live the best life I could and thy my best to love my fellow man. I just can't imagine why anyone who would rather be bad than good. Society couldn't survive without good.
2006-09-26 05:33:32 · answer #11 · answered by stephenl1950 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋