2007-04-18 14:00:49 · 17 answers · asked by BBB 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The real ones are. Unfortunately, the vocal false ones silence them.
2007-04-18 14:05:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Religion has nothing whatsoever to do with who is a good person. Most Christians I know are good people. Most Jewish people, Muslims, Buddhists, and Atheists that I know are also good people. And there are bad apples in every group as well. I personally have some huge problems with religion. I think that religion in general is bad. That's where a lot of our wars and bigotry originally stems from. But saying that I think that a religion as an entity is a bad thing, is different from saying that the individuals within are bad. Most religious people I know are good people. But the same goes for the atheists. It's irrelevant to morality I think.
I wrote a paper in college on whether religion was necessary for society, in order to create moral, law abiding citizens. I studied the crime rates and characteristics of about 15 countries as part of this paper. What I found in my research was this: the only thing that can be conclusively connected to the crime rate of a country was the average educational level of it's citizens, and the poverty rate. Those two characteristics were by far the best "predictors" of crime rate. Religious piety was a very poor predictor of crime.
2007-04-18 21:18:18 · answer #2 · answered by Jennifer in CA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are some genuinely nice people in nearly every religion. If you're asking me to comment on the organizations they belong to, false Christianity is more bloodguilty than any other religion in history. To top it all off, they claim to represent God while doing all that horrible stuff! I'm glad I'm part of true Christianity and don't get involved in genocide, war or abortion (to name but a few).
2007-04-18 21:10:36 · answer #3 · answered by Epitome_inc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The real Christians are good people.
The bad ones are the ones who think that their belief system is Natural Law and should be the law of the world.
This problem exists in almost all belief systems
2007-04-18 21:09:10 · answer #4 · answered by Alan 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In my honest opinion, I think many good people are Christians, be it on purpose or accidentally. But I have seen a great many people who profess to be Christian who are far from Good people.
2007-04-18 21:08:09 · answer #5 · answered by mortgagegirl101 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You probably get good ones and bad ones. Everyone is different. I know and have met some very nice people who are Christians.
2007-04-18 21:07:33 · answer #6 · answered by xoɟ ʍous 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes!!!
But Christians also have faults just as everybody else...they're not SuperPeople...I'm certainly not.
Apparently as long as a Christian keeps they're opinion to themselves they are good...
2007-04-19 08:57:17 · answer #7 · answered by SirLok 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the Christians I know are good people.
they all struggle with what everyone else struggles with every day.... envy, pride, sorrow, doubt, vindictiveness.... they are all human. But the difference is that they deal with these things with the help of the Lord. They know well that they are "on display" to all who know of their faith. They will triumph and they will fail.
Blessings :)
2007-04-18 21:09:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most religious people are good people. They are however, quite delusional and need psychological help to escape the brainwashing they have received.
2007-04-18 21:18:49 · answer #9 · answered by Atheistic 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are all humans and thus have our faults.. but I'd say that nearly half of the population of the world are "good people"
2007-04-18 21:07:51 · answer #10 · answered by ♥Tom♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋