Could following this doctrine eliminate the need for religion?

Question

1) Don't harm your own life
2) Don't harm other lives
3) Try and leave things better than you find them

If not, why not? What is missing?

Answer 1

1) Sweet ninja mask.

2) I don't think that moral living is the only goal of religion. So, even if those doctrines made everyone "get along," it'd still fail to offer any meaning for existence.

3) I think history and our own experience would show us that we repeatedly set aside our own moral "doctrines" when it suits our own gain. Just considering all the times I've hurt someone because of the way I was able to serve my own needs, I think that proves that human beings need more than a set of rules.

Answer 2

Is not doctrine a religious word? Have you read Hammurabi's rules. Man that was a long time ago. Have you seen the damage done in Russia when Stalin did away with religion? It is still a pathetic nation. You have been so brain washed by liberal unbelievers that you have no conception of what Gods Providential grace did for America. We used to have storms etc. but very few deaths. Check out the statistics. It is a sad day in America.

Answer 3

What is missing is a definition of the 3 in your "doctrine" since different things have different values to different people, & you CAN'T change that. These "rules" seem to be a religion in themselves. Also, religion is not so much a "doctrine," as it is a comfort zone. Blind faith relinquishes responsibility, & freedom of self. & yet within a religion there's lots of in-fighting. What is missing as well, is that there can never be an "ideal" world, or concept with such a disparity of humans in it. Nice thought, not possible.

Answer 4

1) Why can't we harm our own life? True freedom includes the freedom to hurt yourself. Laws should only affect interactions between people. They shouldn't try to protect people from themselves.

2) Harm other lives how? Doctors harm cancer patients with chemicals that tear at their bodies. However, it sometimes helps in the long run. Telling someone they aren't succeeding at work might hurt them, but it could help them turn around. We are all hurt so much that we die eventually, so life itself hurts us.

3) Better according to who? My "better" is someone else's "worse".

Answer 5

And how do we define harming someone's life?

Is cheating on your spouse really harming them? Some say yes, some say no. Is pedophilia harmful? Not to some religions. As pointed out above, who decides whether abortion is harmful?

Leave things better than you found them..how exactly? One says secular progression is making things better. Another says, no, secular progression makes our world more dangerous.

So who decides these things, and how do we shape our laws accordingly? How can you make it illegal to kill an elderly person, when someone justifies it as euthanasia? And if someone hurts me, is there no law to vindicate me?

And if someone decides to believe in God anyway, why can't they? Is it morally wrong to believe in religion?

Many, many open-answered questions.
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Answer 6

The problem is that we have evolved in a eat or be eaten environment and that is part of our make-up. Unless we start cloning a new breeed of humans who follow those rules instinctiveley and create an environment in which they don't need to compete your ideas will never fly. Not that the idea is wrong it's just impossible for all people to follow them. It's the old "if you trye to please everybody someone won't like it" situation.

Answer 7

The items you mentioned belong to the pure and true religion as mentioned in James 1:26-27

26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.


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Answer 8

THAT IS WHAT JESUS IS SAYING HERE AND THE APOSTLE REPEAT HIM

Matt.22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Matt.22:38 This is the first and great commandment. Matt.22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Matt.22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Rom.13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery,
Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal,
Thou shalt not bear false witness,
Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment,
it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Rom.13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour:
therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Answer 9

This is a tough crowd.

If you do these things, and you are a harmony-loving person, then you will do just fine. And, you will go to Heaven. Your didn't mention God or Jesus, and I am sure they don't mind. Why? God is a good parent. A good parent wants his children to get along with each other. A good parent does not want to be worshipped.

Answer 10

Basically a good idea but what about thanking our Creator for all the things he provides for us. How about if He decided to go on strike for a day and turned off the sun?