If the Bible is the basis of morality, shouldn't atheists be less moral than believers?

Question

Isn't it enought to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

~Douglas Adams

Answer 1

Proof that religion isn't needed to determine the difference in "right" and "wrong"...

Answer 2

Douglas adams is a strange yet interesting writer. However, while the bible provides the foundation or perfect example of how one should live their lives (in an imitation of Christ's), most atheists have been taught the 10 commandments or heard the golden rule at some point in their lives. Therefore the common sense of the golden rule is what keeps their morality in check.

Answer 3

Morality according to the Bible? You ask a question that has no true meaning to Atheists or peoples that follow other faiths. The Moralities of the Bible were written into it by men.
So we of other faiths can be seen as Immoral as can The Atheist.
What you seem to miss is that other faiths or beliefs have their own morality and most of them will not judge.Christianity and Islam are two extremely judgmental beliefs.
Fairies and such are creatures of magic. Barred to your sight. What you can not see is of no consequence to you. As is your morality to those that will not believe your way.
Most Morals are taught by society. By parents and teachers. Not by the Bible or Qur'an or any other religious book. Parents instill morals as do teachers, those that don't learn morals most often learn later in life by meeting police, judges and wardens.

Answer 4

Religion has always been the basis of morality. If we didn't have the religions of the past, we would have a very different conception of morality. Morality is not something that can be deduced or invented by reason or the intellect. It is something that exists in religion.

Atheists can certainly be moral people, but the morals that they are following originated in Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Islam, and other religions.

Answer 5

No. Even if the Bible is the basis of morality, it doesn't logically follow that the Bible *makes* people more moral if they believe it.

I don't accept the conditional premise either by the way, though I'm a Christian.

Answer 6

Pastors in lots of cases tell churchgoers that they comprehend what authentic morality is using the fact they comprehend the Bible and bypass to church. some churchgoers remember pre-conversion lives the place they screwed up--perhaps had sexual encounters they experience sorry approximately or have been addicted to drugs or dedicated crimes. despite, the message it somewhat is repeated lower back and lower back is "do not have faith your self." If a Christian in a conservative sect sees something that disagrees with the pastor's interpretation of the Bible--say, she would want to positioned on a miniskirt or she thinks her gay co-workers advantageous basically the way she is or she would not love the assumption of being a mom--then of course, she is incorrect, not "God," and he or she would desire to desire to God to think of in yet differently. a advantageous atheist, or the potential of doing sturdy issues without familiar exposure to God, the Bible, the church, and so on., is going to in addition baffle this individual. extra liberal Christians basically comprehend that there are sturdy and undesirable human beings in all communities and that some impulses go beyond faith. The conservative Christian thinks it somewhat is the two taking you at your be conscious or the Bible at your be conscious, no in-between. And extra advantageous than probably, you will lose, regrettably.

Answer 7

The Bible is not the basis of morality, God is. He wrote the natural law on the heart of every person, whether they acknowledge Him or not. That is why atheists are no less moral.

Answer 8

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin- Atheist Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic-U.S.S.R -According to Time Magazine "it is perhaps, impossible to calculate just how many tens of millions of murders "flowed" from Leninism".

Pol Pot- Atheist blamed for the slaughter of 2 million Cambodians about 1/5 of it's people

Mao Zedong Atheist sometimes spelled Mao Tse-Tung-of China killed at least 20 million people out right and 20 million more with the famine that was caused by his policies.

I would say they are less moral than the average Christian who has never killed anyone.

Answer 9

The definition of morality changes based on societies and cultures and time. For example, it was ok for men to have multiple wives before. Not anymore. So you chose the bible to be your definition of morality. People choose different things to define morality. Some choose their parents, the government, or their religion, etc.

Answer 10

Of course, but in reality though the morality of the time (and the morality of the authors) was the basis for the Bible's moral code, not the reverse.

Answer 11

If a person is making the Bible their guide, and Jesus their way of life then they should be very moral.

James 1:21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.