If atheists are so smart, christians are so totally saved?

Question

had to get your attention, can you please answer these questions?

I don't believe everything i was brought up to feel was wrong is wrong, and i can see that ethics change with the times, and vary from one society to another. then why do i still have a conscience?? it seriously interferes with my selfish agenda? shouldn't everything i do be okay by me? i am the ruler of my own destiny, but why do i have to think about stuff, can't i be like nike and just do it?

Answer 1

Think of it this way.

Hindu philosophers realized long ago that the mind is transitory. YOur beliefs change over time, your ideas change, you mature. So they asked, where are YOU? What is unique that is with you at all times, the true you?

They found that there is something inside oneself. It is constant.They called it God; it was total peace. That's why Hindus believe their is God inside everyone; you just have to find it. When you merge fully with this Self, this inner God, you will attain enlightenment. Oh, we call that God Brahman.

This is one path to happiness but not the only one. I hope it helped.

Answer 2

Ethics don't change with the times - you either have them or you don't. The Bible hasn't changed with the times - people just tend to have a looser interpretation of it so that they won't feel guilt. If your agenda is selfish and you are willing to deal with the consequences, "just do it!". You are not the ruler of your own destiny. You can help it along by making good choices, but ultimately "**** happens" and there isn't a darn thing you can do about it but deal with whatever comes your way gracefully. The reason you have to "think about stuff" is because there are other people inhabiting your world and your choices can affect them as well - things can get pretty lonely when you have a selfish agenda.

Answer 3

I am probably not the one to answer this but I will try nonetheless

Morality is an opinion poll that asks two questions

1) What is the best corse for my survival

2) What is the best course for the groups survival

Often times they end up in conflict

Morality and ethics are presented as static but change from generation to generation (although most do not see it as such)

They pass it off as education or revelation but change is change - The 2 question don't appear to change just the answers to them

We seldom say X is wrong - Oh I know you have heard that X is wrong but think about it . How many exceptions are there ?

What we argue about is who gets to do what to whom when and under what circumstances

Murder is wrong unless it's a war

A soldier can kill if it's a war etc

Who gets to do what to whom and under what circumstances

We humans are pack or herd animals - As such we respond to group pressures and try to adapt

Case in point - the concept of beauty is in constant movement

Men or women are "agree" on what is good looking and the groups decision leads to the appropriate phisical and emotional response - The same is said of the changing laws both legal and religious

Once it is decided that X is wrong then the training period begins and you and I start to respond emotionally and such to it

It becomes a new reality of the "static" morality

Putting it in terms of the above removes the idea of guilt to a degree - it also moves us closer to what Nietche was talking about when he said "superman hang your own table over your head".

Shakespeare's Hamlet puts it this way

There is nothing good nor bad but thinking makes it so

Answer 4

Unforunately if everyone did what on their personal agenda then there would be much more chaos in the world. It's for the greater good if you don't do so and we're taught to do that. If you don't have a conscience most of the time people end up looking at you though a little glass window. Society doesn't seem to do well with people who don't have one. I guess it's something they think we have to function with. I'm not saying it's right but it works so far.

Answer 5

As a psychologist I want the sensible Christian of direction. I even have switched over so very many sensible Christians. i hit upon that I actually have a knack for explaining precisely why atheism is the greater effective view on life and simplifying arguments so as that non-scientists can comprehend why there are so few christians on the actual of the educational pyramid. I even have some ninety% conversion fulfillment fee i'd say. The 5% i do no longer convert continually grow to be open-minded or "tolerable" Christians or Theists to boot. i'd desire to chat with you on the concern of Atheism and why to be an atheist in case you communicate approximately your self a sensible Christian. (no longer asserting no Christians are open-minded, hence the 5% holdout, alongside with a plenty greater effective % which i'd count variety as conversions. each each now and then human beings purely want that greater nudge).

Answer 6

I think there are some things that are always wrong. For example I hope that everyone would feel guilty if he or she cheated a person. However, I think some people are just more ethical than others. I don't know why it is––perhaps the way they were raised, but I do think as a society there are some things that all agree are wrong, so if we do them, we feel bad.

Answer 7

Would you like people to kill you? If not, don't kill others..... simple as that.

One have conscience because one can feel and think.

Religious fanatics sometime blind their conscience to serve their imaginary master created by a fraction of their leader's imagination. For example, nowhere in the Quran it is written one should kill in the name of god. Jihad means to promote islam aggressively (like what christians are doing) and they will be killed by god should these people do not follows. To me, it means you lose your way to salvation, but some fanatic twisted it to "god give us ultimate power to kill all infidels".

For religious people, or rather the manipulative people will use religion as a reason to blind other's conscience for their own selfish agenda.

So, everyone should be the ruler of their own destiny, and not be a pawn to some idiotic sucker who wants to control the masses. Everyone should have a brain of their own to think for themselves, to decipher the rights from the wrongs and not a basta*d telling them what to do.

Answer 8

Interesting question, why not be like "Nike", and just do it?
I think that, what we consciously or maybe unconsciously try to protect from harm, is the most valuable part of our being, which is our soul. The voice inside us is talking to us all the time and telling us what to do and what not to do. We sooner or later learn how to listen to it.

O MY FRIEND!
Thou art the daystar of the heavens of My holiness, let not the defilement of the world eclipse thy splendor. Rend asunder the veil of heedlessness, that from behind the clouds thou mayest emerge resplendent and array all things with the apparel of life.
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Answer 9

A conscience is taught by parents and to a lesser extent by the tribe, aka, society. Once you get one you are stuck with it. People who don't get them usually end up in prison or as CEO of corporations.

Answer 10

It's that little piece of God in you that is there to show you why you need Him. It's a homing beacon and certain things activate it, it causes you to pause and think about what you are doing. Basicly God is getting your attention, you choose to listen or not and seek Him out or not. At least that's my take on it. I never understood that until I became a believer myself, and I used to ask similiar questions.