If you kill someone, and they just go to Heaven or Hell (where they would eventually go anyway), what difference does it make?
2007-02-27 11:54:56 · 19 answers · asked by Contemplative Monkey 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sometimes I wonder about some people, because they seem to be under the impression that they would all be out stealing, raping, and killing if their book and preacher didn't tell them not to do that.
2007-02-27 12:19:32 · answer #1 · answered by Jess H 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Religion is not a prerequisite for good morals. Did the God depicted in the bible exhibit good morals for kicking Adam and Eve out of Eden just because they chose knowledge? What kind of parent punishes for learning. What about the fact that God killed nearly every living mammal on the planet Earth? What part of Genocide is morally ok? How about when God took Josephs wife to have a child. If I am more powerful than my children, I still cannot take their wives to have more children.
2007-02-27 11:58:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
um, because you can't just kill people! If they don't want to die, what gives you the right to determine that they should simply because you think it doesn't make a difference because they'll end up in the same place anyway? Maybe someone is going to Hell and by killing them you don't give them a chance to get in to Heaven.
2007-02-27 12:00:10 · answer #3 · answered by Matt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think morality has a heck of a lot more to it than just killing/not killing people.
Some people feel there are fates much worse than death. Morality has to do with all facets of treating others well and generally doing what benefits more than just you.
I think the real question you want to ask is "If atheism is false, then why is murder a 'sin'?"
2007-02-27 12:00:24 · answer #4 · answered by Tiff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MOrality is doing the right thing. if you do not believe in God then there is not right. So morality without atheism is not possible. The doing of right and wrong started from Adam and Eve. They opted for wrong and thus opted not to believe in God, thus becoming athetist.
2007-02-27 12:02:40 · answer #5 · answered by emafaruk 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would make one helluva difference to the one going to hell, I'd think. "Just" going to heaven and "Just" going to hell, are two vastly different ideas. Even so, I know a lot of good people who are not religious, and they didn't become good people due to religious pressures...so I don't think either one (morality or athiesm) affect the other.
2007-02-27 11:57:43 · answer #6 · answered by Lisa E 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can have morality by denouncing the false belief of atheism, and acknowledging the Son of Man. "Morality" without God leads to eternal damnation.
2007-02-27 11:58:35 · answer #7 · answered by Samuel Crow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheist/Agnostic here. I do not think that you can have an objective morality in a universe without someone saying that it is wrong. Unfortunately in our universe that means humans determine that, therefore it is subjective.
2007-02-27 11:59:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Huh?
morality is just a word - atheism is just a word - they both exist with or without each other.
FP
2007-02-27 11:57:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can - you should, anyway. If you must, forget about the afterlife and think about today. What about society at present? If people just went on rampant killing sprees or, if they just decided to commit murder or did whatever they wanted, society would be in utter chaos.
2007-02-27 12:03:33 · answer #10 · answered by Phyllobates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋