2007-02-14 11:50:33 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That depends on how you define either. If you define "faith" as adhering to the basic tenets of a religion and "moral" as being the distinction in theory and in fact between good and bad, then I would have to say, no. I'm not religious but I have a strong set of values or morals, whatever you want to call it. Religion has nothing to do with morality - which is why you find fervent Christians who kill or are otherwise intolerent or Atheists who apply strong morals to their lives.
2007-02-14 11:55:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has a belief system--and so has faith of some sort. That does not make a person moral. As it says in the New Testament, even the devil believes.
What makes a person moral is how the act--are the honest? Do they treat others with fairness and compassion? and so on.
2007-02-14 11:58:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe that faith is a requisite to being moral. There are people who have dedicate their faithfulness to such despicable practices. Murder, rape, bigotry, pedophilia, etc etc. I believe that recognizing the inherent capability of good and evil in everyone and the decision to do what is right and just makes a person moral.
2007-02-14 12:09:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has faith. You exercise faith everytime you sit on a chair, for instance.
Do you mean religious faith? No, my dad was a very moral person, but he was an atheist.
2007-02-14 11:56:23 · answer #4 · answered by Gee Wye 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I am a Christian, but to be moral and faith are two different things. Ther're none believers that are decent and up right and there are Christians that are in prison for not being moral. Good question
2007-02-14 11:57:29 · answer #5 · answered by ffperki 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you start with having faith in your own goodness then it would be moral from your part to keep it that way .and what is morality ,who decided that this moral or this is not ;people so have faith in them to act morally . does that make sense .hahaha
2007-02-14 12:02:07 · answer #6 · answered by chantoulai 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you don't although many religious people will insist otherwise. If you set moral standards and live by them you are moral. Almost all faiths and creeds agree on the big issues. Don't steal, murder, commit adultery, hurt people etc.
2007-02-14 11:56:21 · answer #7 · answered by Karrose 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. In fact, if you look at the statistics of incarcerated population, the ratio of inmates of faith over atheist inmates is higher than the normal population. This tells you that having faith does not necessarily lead to a life within the law.
2007-02-14 12:33:19 · answer #8 · answered by CC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. To have any morals without a source for those morals make them obsolete and inconsequential. It'd be like saying "Hey, I have the best hamburger," while never having been to the people who make the best hamburgers. No, person, obviously you don't have the best hamburger because you chose not to acknowledge the hamburger makers.
Make sense?
2007-02-14 12:34:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith in what?
I'm not religious at all and I have more morals than half the fundies running around screaming at everyone that they should have better morals.
2007-02-14 11:54:08 · answer #10 · answered by T Time 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋