If morality comes from the Bible, what do you suppose keeps Stephen Hawking from going on murdering sprees?

Question

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Answer 1

Even people born in remote areas, who practice alternate religions, who have never seen a bible or worship a Christian God, know right from wrong. We do not have to have a bible to tell us it is wrong to steal or kill. Morals are part of each of us individually, not specific to any religion or words in a book.

Answer 2

Morality doesn't come from religion. Religion merely gives people rules to follow until they're sophisticated and advanced enough to come up with their own morality.

Which rarely happens.

Besides, what motivation would Stephen Hawking have to go on a murdering spree? It's not like it would help him to be paralyzed AND in jail. Even if you don't have morals, there are laws with consequences.

Answer 3

What? What keeps Stephen Hawking from going on murdering sprees? Probably, um, Lou Gehrig's Disease and that wheelchair.

But actually your question doesn't follow from the "morality comes from the Bible" thing. Is Hawking an atheist? Still doesn't mean he was influenced by it. Most people widely accept the Ten Commandments are true (at least in principle) and most religions have some form of most of those commandments.

Answer 4

The flip answer is that it is difficult to go about on a spree if you are confined to a wheelchair. But the real story is that morality derives from evolution, which applies to societies as well as to species: a society that lives by a sound moral code will survive preferably to one that does not. Religions claim to be the origin of moral codes, but this is clearly wrong; consider the Shakers, or the Jim Jones cult.

Answer 5

Well he would certainly need a spree to do it!

Morality is WELL evidenced right to the core of our being. Humans KNOW what is right and wrong without having to be told.

The classic problem for atheists is nothing in their worldview prepares them for the fact objective morality. And without objective morality, that leads to subjective morality which leads to immorality.

Without God, objective morality is impossible.

The only thing that stops many atheists from acting on their whims is the consequence of law and their own subjective and accidental interpretations of what is right and wrong.

Answer 6

Morality doesn't come from the bible-especially from the Old Testament. It comes from your consience and reasoning and from your parents. Many good people I know have never read the Bible. There are those who read it but do bad deeds.

Answer 7

Who says morality just comes from the BIBLE?
A large majority of the world, are other moral faiths, or do not follow the BIBLE (or any other faith) and are still very moral.
HOW DO YOU "EXPLAIN" THIS?

So obviously, your question has no validity or relevance.
....it is also sadly lacking in intelligence, and common SENSE!

Answer 8

There are many atheists that are good people.

They just simply do not want to agree with us that the standards and guidelines found in the Bible are divine.

One atheist I know cannot not stand to hear someone cuss. And he tells them so.
He not violent, but he is a big tough wielder that'll tell you to talk clean in front of him.

Answer 9

Nothing of the sort comes from the Bible. The Bible is a form of messenger. All morality comes from God, and because all humans are made in the image of God, it is within their nature to be good at times. Even Hilter, as evil as he was, had his good times.

Answer 10

Who said it comes from the Bible?