2006-09-29 14:27:11 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jean Paul Satre would say so. From that starting point he developed his atheistic existentialism.
2006-09-29 18:53:42 · answer #1 · answered by terraform_mars 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately for us we have been given so many different Gods. We don't know the truth from a lie. Most of us that claim a religion don't even have a clue of its origin. We believe in what we have been taught. Blind faith is all of our religion. That does not mean that there is not a God. You have to seek the truth. You have to seek out what is real and what is not. This does not give you or anybody else the right to do what you wish. If everything were permissible, the would not be death. There would not be disease. Do you honestly need someone to tell you this. Think about it for just a second. For every action there is a reaction, correct? With that being so, you have an understanding of punishment and chastisement. So of course anything and everything that we do has consequences. It has been since the beginning of time. Trust that if something in a society is frowned upon, it isn't because they didn't have the balls to try it themselves. Just because you have the ability to do something does not make it right. A better example is how Christians believe that killing is a sin. So does it make it justifiable to kill someone that kills? Ummm......no, it doesn't. Not for anyone. And I hate to break it to homosexuals but it just isn't permissible. If this were true then, there would be no need for reproductive glands. Really no need for sex. Pleasure can be achieved without it! Look at the disease that comes from it! Not to mention the death! So we do not have the right to live in vain.
2006-09-29 21:43:01 · answer #2 · answered by amani622 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if your only reason for refraining from "everything" is that there is a God watching you.
But you don't need God to condemn immoral things like child rape and murder. I guess that helps.
All you really need to ask is if you would enjoy someone doing that thing to you. It's called conscience. Stealing other people's things is inexcusable because of how we personally would feel if someone stole from us.
I think this question is a good one, and it's true. Nowadays, (not that I'm a bible-thumper) society has basically eschewed religious values. Without the dogmatic belief, i.e. the ten commandments, everything IS permissable. I mean, there's an organized society for the legalization of pedophillia. You are an intolerant slime if you "judge" them as being "wrong" for wanting to sleep with young boys! There is no longer any concrete understanding of right and wrong, and it's all laughably subjective.
We let child rapists and murderers out of prison...we listen to them and give them appeal. Well, really, what reason could a child-murderer give that you should care about? They should be shot on the spot to keep other kids safe.
Yes, if God does not exist then everything is permissable. Look at secular america and tell me that's not already true.
2006-09-29 21:37:54 · answer #3 · answered by Rabid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The moral taboos, social laws, notions of virtue we have, including the ones in phony "revelations" like th Bible and Koran, are ideas men and women developed in community and codified, attributing them to a higher and unchallengeable authority that could never be cross-examined. So the answer is God does not exist, but those things deemed impermissible were so deemed by men and not a god. These taboos are the natural result of humans living together and finding ways to accommodate the pressures that creates an deflect the harm that can occur in close community. We do not need a god to tell us "murder is wrong." We all agree we do not want to be murdered, or have our property stolen, or be lied about around town, and parents all want to be respected by their kids. We know what hurts us and what helps us and needed no god to classify these things as "good" or "bad." Bad things are not permissible because we as a society jointly decree them so and support the taboo and join in sanctioning those who do not. All of this occurs naturally, no god required. Even Paul said as much, that those who did not have the benefit of the Jewish law nevertheless knew right from wrong and were a law unto themselves. The laws of the world did not all originate in Judea.
2006-09-29 21:49:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. Let's say hypothetically that God does not exist, there are still morals. So no, everything is not permissible.
2006-09-29 21:30:40 · answer #5 · answered by kittycat_cc14 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God does exist and everything is permissible.
God does not judge us for learning our lessons.
This idea is just a lie that religion tells us about God.
Love and blessings
don
2006-09-29 21:30:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
God or some book should never guide your life telling you what u can and can't do. We all have a mind and a heart. Which should be our guidance system througought our lives.
society is really who decides what is permissible or not. not God
2006-09-29 21:58:54 · answer #7 · answered by GNOSIS 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He does but guess what if they hadnt sinned sex might have happened with more than one woman without problems but since Adam messed up... they knew they were naked so God said there would have to be rules cuz now knowing evil Men wont share their wives....so everything changed...
2006-09-29 21:30:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
With or without God, we all have free will, and can therefore do good or evil as we choose. There are people who in the name of their religion do horrible things to others and there are people who do not believe in God who are good,upright and honest.
2006-09-29 21:35:12 · answer #9 · answered by Sicilian Godmother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its called morality. Something that most of us have which tells us what is right. God doesnt need to have anything to do with it.
THen there is the guilt after you have done something wrong.
2006-09-29 21:31:34 · answer #10 · answered by Boggle Master 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋