Has your belief or disbelief in the innate worth of every human being been colored more by your faith/philosophy or your life experiences?
2007-01-26 08:59:11 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Certainly every person has worth in his or her own eyes. It is easy enough for the cynical observer to claim that someone is worthless, and perhaps, having knowledge of the subject's deeds and activities, one might be inclined to agree. In my opinion, "worth" is akin to "being"; a person possesses worth by virtue of his or her existence. To be "worthy" is the goal as I see it: to live a life worthy of emulation and admiration. Conversely perhaps, it would be preferable to be worthless than to be a perpetrator of genuine evil. One could not consider Hitler, for instance, to be of no worth due to his great impact upon the world. I tend to think that a person who is judged by his or her contemporaries to be of no worth as a person of little consequence to society. Who, though, are we to judge another's worth?? I think that my deductions reflect a bit of both philosophy and experience. I like your thought-provoking question...
2007-01-26 16:26:49 · answer #1 · answered by Lynci 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well if I was going by my faith/philosophy in that supposedly we all come from the same place and go back to the same place when we die, that we all have a spark of the Divine in us, I would say then yes every person has worth.
But I can't always go by that and go by life experiences instead. So I would have to say in my opinion - no, they don't. I can't reconcile how someone like a serial killer, abuser, rapist, the dictators that order mass genocides such as in Rwanda or Darfur, a lunatic like Hitler killing millions of people just because he didn't like them, or someone like the murderers that killed thousands of innocents on September 11 could have any worth at all.
2007-01-26 17:30:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes!!!
I guess it comes more from meditating in the gospel that in our expirience (but read psalm 1!!).
When God made the Earth, He made it by His words: "Shall be the light, Shall be the water" and so on. But when He made Adam it was with his hands. And at the same time He was shaping Adam, He was giving form to all the Humanity, to each one of us the way that we will be. "This one will be like this. This other one... will be like this". With care, love, tenderness, puting in us many of His qualities (this is in the Bible) making us by his image and alikeness.
For all the Cristians, every human, rich or poor, healthy or sick, even good or bad - is a holly masterpiece of the of The Greatest Engineer and Architect, God - wich deserves plenty of love and respect. "Love God with all your strenght, hear and soul, and love your neighbor as yourself".
Like hot breads testifies that there is a hot oven some where... each one of us, with all the details, shapes, perfections of functioning that the human cience will never achieve (and can barelly understand) - testifies that there is a great wisdom, and love, that by Christ we know, that is in heaven, our heavenlly Father.
God bless you.
(sorry for the mistakes, I am form Brasil!)
2007-01-26 23:11:12 · answer #3 · answered by Daniel 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
definately, yes .
2007-01-26 17:15:09 · answer #4 · answered by riddlemethis 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋