I f your not a Christian,then how shallow are your morals.?

Question

If you dont accept right from wrong, evil against good, then how can you persuade others that you are not opinionated!?.

Answer 1

I'm sorry that it seems you are getting bashed on this site. I debated reporting you but there is always the chance that you are young and just do not realize exactly what you said. Jewish people who believe in your God, who believe in your idea of Jesus and who read the Torah, which contains much of the Old Testament, are not lacking right from wrong and resent your unthinking words. The Holocaust was not made up but factual evidence prove that it really did happen. It was thinking like yours that lead to the genocide of those people.

See, opinionated means having an opinion, holding to one's own belief or conclusion held with confidence.

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/opinion;_ylt=ApsWNuzeMmeFNbXdyeesAeUZvskF

So everyone is opinionated on religion, unless you are one of those people who will change your belief structure every month or with each girl/guy you date.

Christians hold strong to their religious convictions/ opinions.
But that has nothing to do with accepting right from wrong and good from evil.

The atheists are opinionated. So they aren't trying to convince anyone they aren't. It would be pointless to come on a board and say "convert me I have no idea what I believe" (b/c those would be the ones who might not know right/wrong, good/evil). Buddist, Wiccans, Christians, Muslims are all opinionated so no one will try to convince you differently.

However, there was good and bad in the world long before Christianity. It would all be included in your Old Testament, which I recommend you read. God was around before Christianity. There were humans around before Jesus. By you saying they can't know right from wrong, you are calling Abraham, Moses, Elijah, Elisha, Joshua, Samual, Daniel who was kept safe in the lions den, Jonah who was swallowed by a whale--all immoral. Simply this cannot be true if you belief in Christianity.

Do you believe your Old Testament to be filled with evil men who did not know right from wrong, who merely worshiped God with lying tongues b/c they knew nothing of the unborn Jesus?

It is my prayer that you were unsure when you asked that question and you needed spiritual guidance. You had not thought of your statement and it's insult to every group out there, Chrisitans and Jews (like Jesus and his parents), not just "unbelievers"

Answer 2

The first half of your question does not lead into the second half of your question.
I am not a Christian, but I would imagine that my morality would be indistinguishable from theirs.
I can, without any trouble discern the subtle and yet complex differences that lie between right and wrong, evil and good, and expect that I could, as I said before be compared to a Christian, with no difference in the outcome.
On the (sub) question of whether or not I am opinionated, I think that I can convince you that I am.
Here's an example - I was in the supermarket today. I had to buy milk. The 'locally produced' milk costs 90 cents a bottle more than the milk which is produced some 70 kilometers from here. Milk is milk. In my opinion, expensive milk tastes no better than cheaper milk, so I bought the cheaper milk, because, in my Opinion, I prefer to save the money.
I'm opinionated.
It might make me a bad person in some people's eyes, but that's their opinion.
Now they're opinionated too.
It's a vicious circle.

Answer 3

Right and wrong is a pretty easy thing to identify. It does not require religion to define which is which. Some aspects of religious belief could well be defined as being ethically wrong to those who are not religious and vice versa such as some religious individuals (some not all) deeming homosexuality to be morally repugnant and unacceptable whilst this belief would in itself be seen as morally wrong to others with differing opinions.

There also seems to be a belief from your question that Christianity is the only relevant moral compass out there. there are various other sources such as Buddhism which can be seen to have a very moral code or even a secular humanist source can be seen to be extremely moral without having a religious basis. In the same manner being Christian is not an automatic innocualtion from others believing you are opinionated.

Answer 4

Obviously English isn't your native language, but I think I get the gist.

Do you seriously believe the world was devoid of morality before Christians came along? Even the Bible doesn't say that (read Romans). Do you really believe that Israel had morality while the rest of the world knew nothing of right and wrong? Read the Old Testament. They supposedly have been god's special people from the beginning and they have hardly been moral pillars in any age.

Do you think all of Paul's letters to the churches were written just to congratulate them on their perfection? Why did the Spirit bother sending letters to the churches in St. John's Revelation if being Christians they were so morally upright and perfect?

Were there no civilizations and families and laws before Moses? Before Jesus?

Arrogance and ignorance in such perfect harmony one might almost credit it as divine.

Answer 5

Being Christian has absolutely nothing to do with morals. Are you saying that everyone in the world who doesn't practice Christianity is immoral? Where do you get your ideas from!!!! As a spiritualist I have very high morals and I certainly know right from wrong and that everything negative has the opposite - positive. Sorry but I object to your insinuation that I have no morals just because I am not Christian. I DO believe in God and Jesus but that does not make me Christian.

Answer 6

I am not a Christian and am definitely opinionated. I think people of Religion, all religions may be less moral. Many follow a teaching blindly but in many cases have no reasons apart from blind faith. Any circumstance outside their teaching is beyond their ability to apply morals so they resort to doing their own thing. When they do commit a "sin" they are aware that they have violated their beliefs which makes them wanton sinners. With out religion you really have to question yourself deeply about what is right and wrong and the consequences of your deeds.

Answer 7

Religion, as well as beliefs and things are like stronger boundries than the basic ones that individuals come up with for themselves so if Christians actually try to follow their religion, or whatevers try to follow whatever religion (that tries to keep people from sinning or going past moral boundries) then they will usually be more moral than those who don't. I am a Christian so I can't really answer your question but a lot of people where complaining about your question so I just thought, why not.

Answer 8

That's Star Wars you are thinking of, not christianity.

Star Wars shows good against evil, right from wrong. Christianity shows church against atheist.

If you are going to make an unfounded claim, at least make it a good one. Perhaps as a non-christian, I understand morality better than you do. After all, I learned mine from experience, but you only read yours in a book.

Besides which, I thought the spurious argument of the week is that morality always comes from god, christian or not. Or was that last week's spurious argument?

Answer 9

Someone does not need to be a Christian to accept right from wrong and good against evil. My ex-boyfriend was an atheist and he was extremely moral. .

Answer 10

My morals are probably better than most Christians.

Who says I don't believe in a difference between right and wrong or good and evil? What? You Christians think you have a monopoly on moral values? One of the reasons I left Christianity is because I thought it was LACKING in good morals.