Religious morals vs non-religous morals?

Question

I hear people say relgious people are have better morals than non-religious people. In my opinion it depends on how compassionate the person is and how that person acts when no one else is around. Your thoughts?

Answer 1

i say they're equal among both groups. you don't necessarily need religion to tell you that murdering someone is wrong. we, the religious and non-religious can both agree that killing someone is not right. it is inhumane. no one has the right to choose whether someone else lives or dies.

i think the more tolerant and understanding you are about people and the different situations they are placed in, the better a person you are. for example, you can't call a woman a murderer just because she had an abortion. you do not know why she had it. she could have had because of medical reasons. maybe she wanted to have the baby but her body didn't allow her too. point is, you can not go around saying horrible things and assuming the worst of people. you haven't lived through what they have, you don't know about their upbringing, you don't know their friends, family, their problems, you don't know the person. how can you judge them?

Answer 2

Yes.
In Malaysia, religious peopleare divided into 2 types.
1. The well mannerd one.
2. The fanatic one.
We're worried these few decades about the occuring problems such as new 'rules' that don't exist in Islam but bein told to us by the religious no 2 type.

Answer 3

Wow, many different view points on this one.
The best way I can answer your question is this:
It depends on whether a person has genuinely accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of their lives.
Yes, there are people out there that claim to be a Christian, but don't live it then there are those of us that do our very best to live as God wants us to live.
As to morals, I once read it this way: A good person can go to hell just as a bad person can.
Our place to spend eternity depends on our relationship with Jesus.
God gives us free will to make our own decisions, He didn't create us as robots.
Hope this helps.

Answer 4

lol. Have you ever noticed that the religious rarely live by their own "morals" and are just as corrupt as everyone else?

I live by the rule "If I don't want it to happen to me, I won't do it to someone else". That suits me well.

Too bad the religious rarely live by that and instead think that the only reason they do anything good is because a 2000 year old book told them to. Rather like children doing what daddy said because daddy said it.

Answer 5

You can't help but want to do better in this lifetime once you've met the Creator. Before I had a personal encounter with Jesus Christ, I didn't give much thought to the eternal things and to how my everyday actions could actually effect someone else's eternity; now that I've met Him, it changes your entire code of conduct; how you think, act, what you say, where you go, EVERYTHING!, because now you realize that indeed, someone always IS looking!

Answer 6

Any sort of Morality guidelines that bring about Harmony, Unity , Love and Peace is a Good guideline... whether they are cultural, societal or spiritual

Any sort of Morality guidelines that brings about Violence, Pain, Despair and Disregard of Humanity's rights is a Bad guideline... EVEN if its a guideline of Divine Sanction. Any Divinity that causes Tears to Roll, Blood to Pour and Families to be Broken is not Divine at all, but evil and wicked...even though they themselves claim to be the Source of all Good

The BEST morality guides are the ones that make your own Heart feel happy for following them, makes your mind feel at ease when practicing them and makes your "spirit" or Nature feel at Peace for perfecting them.... be they religious morals or otherwise.

Answer 7

Its depend on the individual,religion is a belief that teach people to be on the right track.But that doesn't that mean people without a religion is without a belief.As long what are you doing now is not hurting anyone,thats already a good belief.
Whoever said that must spent his/her whole life in the church and not in the real world.Everyone have the freedom to choose their own belief

Answer 8

Even the morals of "non-religious" people have a religious origin. Western society's entire moral system comes from Judeo-Christian roots.

.

Answer 9

I would have though non-religious people have better morals, as they would come from modern, logic and educated people. Religious morals are very hypocritical, inconsistent, old-fashioned and biased.

Answer 10

Depends on the individual. Nevertheless, having to belittle others to make
onesself feel big, is not moral. No matter what they think!