If we were a godless nation would our people be more or less committed to a sound moral foundation?

Question

Sound Morals= tolerance, honesty, equality........
Does the independent practice of morality drive an individual to be more committed to the established values; as opposed to values dictated by an institution?

Answer 1

Who teaches the values? If individuals teach their children their own moral values, and I agree that the ones you name are excellent, then why is commitment to established values so lacking today. Religious practice is at an all time low in most of the Western world and many churches in the United States are closing for lack of membership. If church teaching had no positive effect on the suffusion of morality in society, wouldn't we see more individual commitment to morals? But we don't. A child of my acquaintance recently told me that he hates church (he's only been to it a few times) and his moral outlook is that if you don't get caught it's okay to do whatever you want. It seems to me that this is the new morality in our fairly godless society: Don't get caught.

Answer 2

the answer is amazingly obvious, The Republicans led to this moral,economic, environmental disaster! Granted, Clinton who had to wrestle a Repub. Congress for 8 years has has blood on his fingers because he change into susceptible. you're making a sturdy element once you suggested that the Repubes held maximum folk as a lot because the merely good 2 years of the Bush Regime. diverse have come ahead now to assert that the Bush Regime change into B some distance the darkest maximum unconstitutional 8 years in American historic previous and they are one hundred% good!!! They ran on being the moral party yet, contained in the merely good 10 years a record # of republicans have both come out or been dragged out of the closet. OH guy and are those adult men ever ill ,twisted FREAKS! a similar hypocrites who fought hostile to gay mirage

Answer 3

If by "godless" you mean Atheist, then I believe "our people" would be MORE committed to a sound moral foundation: myths and legends interpreted on a subjective basis aren't sound foundations for anything but hypocrisy. An Atheist population, while still subject to the same subjective lapses of reason all humans are, wouldn't be mind-numbed by faith.

Answer 4

Religion is the opposite of morality. People are religious and do things so they get a reward in the next life.

People who are not religious tend to do things to make this life better.

So if we were a godless nation I think thing's would be better. Believe in your fellow humans, not God.

This is only my personal opinion. I don't want to offend anyone

Answer 5

A lot of people have no morals so the only way they exist within a society is for the society to mandate morals.

Answer 6

Most moral laws are made by man and not god.Sad to say that the world will go with out gods laws and morals.History has already shown that to be true.

Answer 7

A truly godless nation would, I believe, be far more equitable, since it would be nonsensical to insist that one group should have precedence over another. Also, people would vote in their own best interests, not in the interests of people who use the bible to gain materially at the ballot box over phony issues like gay marriage and abortion.

Answer 8

You need God as the standard for morals. You can't legislate morality. If you could, there would be less laws, not more.

Answer 9

I don't think there's any correlation between a belief in god a person adhering to "sound morals". In fact, per capita, I'm quite certain that you'd find more criminals who do believe in god than don't.
That doesn't mean belief in god implies criminal behavior, but it does imply that there's simply more to the story than whether or not you believe in god.

Answer 10

Say what you want, look at the results and the evidence. Criminality, phony war, baby murdering, lies, apostasy.