2007-02-15 10:00:30 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I guess it is like assuming that because I can't run the 100 in 9 seconds nobody else can. I think I'm close to 11 or something.
2007-02-15 10:03:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had good moral qualities long before I became a Christian ... I see no reason to believe why another person wouldn't be able to have those also. There are plenty of so-called Christians that still don't seem to have any morals or ethics.
If you don't have any kind of morals to begin with, then religion is NOT going to change that. Its just going to make you better at hiding it, and more self-righteous when you feel others are close to discovering the truth. God doesn't make you want to do the right thing, you have to want it yourself to begin with. Any logical person -- believer or non -- could tell you that.
2007-02-15 18:32:52 · answer #2 · answered by ◦Delylah◦ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religious people dont assume that at all but I agree that is precisely what unbelievers think we think.
Theists argue that atheists do not have a an objective basis for morality as indeed they do not. That is not to say the atheist is without morality because we believe that God has instilled morality in all of us. That is why we KNOW things like murder and torture are wrong. Some of us still do them anyway and find ways to rationalize it, but they know it is still wrong. But where does this objective morality come from if there is no God? The atheist has no answer for this sadly!
2007-02-15 18:23:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
As a society morality is primarily defined by its religious ethics.
Latter it becomes imprinted in the culture and has a degree of separation.
People then in turn follow the morality that is defined by the culture.
So can a person have morality without religion? Yes absolutely.
but can the morality appear in the society without the religion.
in that I have serious doubts. But hey I could be wrong
2007-02-15 18:09:15 · answer #4 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Religion is never a basis for morality. Cases in point: Jesse Jackson, Falwell, Robertson, and the recently fallen Haggard.
Some people confuse religion with spirituality. If a person finds their own center, and respects the world around them, then everything else falls into place. I have talked to atheists who have more spirituality than "religious" people.
2007-02-15 18:05:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
They are 100% wrong, you don't have to be religious to have moral qualities. It all depends to you, how you feel when you do something wrong.. Remember the best pillow in the night is a clean conscience ..
2007-02-15 18:05:58 · answer #6 · answered by ILSE 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Religion" doesn't give one good morals, having a relationship with Almighty God does!
Religion is man-made. Christianity is God instituted.
2007-02-15 18:22:56 · answer #7 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Morals are taught by parents and are part of us,religious or not
2007-02-15 18:19:57 · answer #8 · answered by woodsonhannon53 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Egotism! Just sheer egotism. They think a lot of themselves, and so ram their opinions down your throat without any consideration that you may have different ideas. These people consider themselves to be always right, and everyone else is wrong. A kind of "sanctimonious" attitude.
I tell them to "stop ramming their opinions down my throat, and I'll refrain from ramming my fridge down theirs". :-)
2007-02-15 18:06:37 · answer #9 · answered by Tabby 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because many religious people are arrogant and vain and selfishly think they alone have the answers to everything...but they don't.
2007-02-15 18:21:38 · answer #10 · answered by CHEESUS GROYST 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋