2007-02-12 09:39:26 · 18 answers · asked by vehement_chemical 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Imperfect, sometimes they are too strict, sometimes they are too lax.
I appreciate the Silver Rule: More useful and close to reality. Probably the perfect one
2007-02-12 09:42:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why do they have to be too anything? An atheist can fully accept the morality of the Bible without believeing in God.
However, I'd say too lax. I can't let myself believe that if I do good i'll go to heaven, then I'd do good to get into heaven. Even if that wasn't my conscious reason for doing good, I'd know that by doing good I'd get into heaven so it amounts to almost the same. I want to do good and be good for its own sake, without any lawgivers.
2007-02-12 17:56:39 · answer #2 · answered by serf m 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, there's no such thing as "God's morals", but Christian morals simply are too lax for this atheist.
2007-02-12 17:47:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People that are atheist do not know god so they are atheist. God has not called them and they are honest people not hypocrites like so many Christians are today that only know a God of history that their parents taught them. Too many Christians do not serve a living breathing God and I promise you that the atheist will do better on judgment day than many Christians today that do not even know the God they do serve.
2007-02-12 17:46:34 · answer #4 · answered by sirromo4u 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Atheist are actually very moral people. Most surveys will show that atheist actually have a lower crime and murder rate than Christians. The religious propagandists all try and imply than Christianity brings morality, and every study has shown exactly the opposite is true. Don't associate religion with morality, it just isn't true.
2007-02-12 17:41:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Atheists don't believe in God (by definition), so the question doesn't make sense. If they believed in God, but chose not to follow morals set down by God, they wouldn't be athiests anymore.
2007-02-12 17:42:57 · answer #6 · answered by Qwyrx 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's more a matter of too pointless. You can't wear two types of fibre at the same time? WHAT is the moral imperative in THAT?
2007-02-12 17:43:05 · answer #7 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
A lot of atheists are more spiritual than a lot of religous people. . Atheist, a label.
2007-02-12 17:45:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Some are good...some are way off, hence why today's religious folk like to pick and choose which morals they want to follow.
2007-02-12 17:43:16 · answer #9 · answered by Ashton 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Too lax. I could never look at another human beings and think to myself, "He/she isn't going to Heaven".
2007-02-12 17:45:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋