Are religion and God the only thing keeping you from becoming a sociopath?

Question

I'm referring to this question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiToOaukfDrsklj3a8TInCXsy6IX?qid=20070331151130AAyKxVB&show=7#profile-info-i23yrDBiaa

I find it scary that so many people would take the opportunity to become as immoral as possible because there is no Godly punishment or reward at the end of life.

Answer 1

Sociopaths are really rare, and they are almost never Christians.

I'll concede Jim Jones and David Karesh.

Answer 2

No, it's not. I'm already a diagnosed sociopath, and I did it all on my own, no help from your sky daddy. Just because people want to party doesn't make them a sociopath. Read the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders if you really want to know what a sociopath is.

Oh, and I resent your use of the term sociopath. The correct terminology is antisocial personality disorder. Which I really truly have along with borderline personality, so could you please stop making fun of people who really do have this problem? Or is that too hard for you? Tell you what, I'll quit making fun of your sky daddy if you stop making fun of people with mental illnesses, kay?

Answer 3

The reason many atheists do not become sociopaths is yet another evidence pointing to a Creator: conscience.

Conscience is not the logical result of evolution. The logical result of evolution is, essentially, sociopathic.

To answer your question:
A God-given conscience is the only thing keeping any of us from being sociopaths. My religion is what shows me the truth of this matter.

Answer 4

At first, I immediately thought 'no', since I was brought up as a Christian. However, when I thought more about it, I was disappointed to find that the answer is 'yes'. By nature, humans are evil. We're corrupt, perverse, and very sinful. If God doesn't exist, we have nothing to fear; and so, we do whatever we want.

However, I hope that sometime later in the future, I'll ask myself your question again. And when I do, the answer really will be 'no'.

Answer 5

All the sociopaths in history have been manipulators of people instead of being doers of work on real space-time materials, etc.
Which means postmodernists--people who don't want to have to know in order to be dictator, expert, source of orders--want to be able to do away with reality. Worldly religionists--people who claim to believe in a much different better or worse afterlife but instead of quitting the world for a monastery stay around to mess it up can only do so by three acts:
1. Claim they are the one or are following someone who's got infallible inside knowledge about a better universe.
2. Sell the idea to other people by some form of collectivizing crime--force , fraud or coercion.
3. Ignore the fact that their fantasy ideas won't work on Earth and hang onto pragmatic--impractical--power anyhow, whatever crimes it takes.

So the answer to your question is: only secular ,minds can be moral on Earth and only they love themselves and other people equally; and only religious people in monasteries are moral there, for the same reason--people choose in each to be where they belong, and take responsibility therefore for thinking successfully about their reality universe and for working to make it a good place for themselves in cooperation with other agreeing minds.
period.

Answer 6

Yes, if man is the measure of all things and there is no higher truth than what I can find in myself, then how would a finite creature like me determine what is ethical, what is truth, what is love without revelation from God.

Answer 7

Religion creates it's share of sociopaths.

Answer 8

There is a quote, attributed on wikiquote to Steven Weinberg (physicist), regarding religion: "With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things, and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion."

Answer 9

no!

There is Godly punishment or reward at the end of life!!!

Answer 10

a true Christian is a new creature, not the old man. I dont know if any true Christian could tell you what they would have done in the future if they hadnt been born again.