Are all "outsiders" emotionally devoided of hope, honesty, forgivness, love, compassion, cherity, selflessness, etc., etc.?
2007-06-14 18:15:22 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Of course not!!!
2007-06-14 18:20:03 · answer #1 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Anyone can do a good deed for any reason but virtue is character that does the right thing for the right reason. Trying to get a reward is a wrong reason. Avoiding punishment is a wrong reason. All the good feelings we get when we do a good deed are mental rewards.
Since I can't find any other reasons other than those connected with reward and punishment, I conclude that no one is virtuous. Virtue is a goal that we want for ourselves but we cannot get there.
2007-06-15 06:38:28 · answer #2 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Macroscopically we may understand by the word religion, the major religions of the world, however, microscopically speaking, each person is following his own religion which is unique to him.
People following different religions are traveling on different paths. All these paths are foreign to each other. When travelers of different paths meet at some station in life, they recognize human traits in each other.
Their willingness to accommodate the other is the foundation of virtue and soon laws of co-existence start manifesting, termed as ethics.The capacity of an individual to accommodate the other varies, irrespective of his/her religion, from time to time and improves with experience and understanding. The virtues are inherent in human beings and religious teachings facilitate their recognition and development.
As such the religions exist because the human beings have virtues inherent in them and not vice versa
2007-06-15 02:03:14 · answer #3 · answered by j c 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not at all. I believe that EVERYONE'S faith has validity. Everyone has it in them to be virtuous. We, as a species on this world, need to drop this attitude that ONLY we are favored by the Creator and everyone else is going to suffer unless they fall into line with us.
Raji the Green Witch
2007-06-21 23:07:08 · answer #4 · answered by Raji the Green Witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One can be virtuous and moral outside of a religion. One can love, having been created in God's image, man and woman. God is love. With God's love indwelling, the other attributes are there as well. The key is whether or not one has received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
2007-06-21 16:26:51 · answer #5 · answered by tercor40 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some of the best people I know are not of the same religious belief that I am. I am Wiccan but most of my family and friends are Christian and they are great people. I love them all and they love me. There are good and bad people in all religions!
2007-06-15 01:34:06 · answer #6 · answered by Native Spirit 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No Some very good and virtuous people That Iknow are holders of other beliefs. They are good people and I am glad to have them as friends.
2007-06-21 04:26:13 · answer #7 · answered by David F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, quite the opposite. I've met plenty of other pagans who lacked virtue. It's all about the person, not what faith they subscribe to.
2007-06-15 01:55:47 · answer #8 · answered by St. Toad 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope. People of all religions are all as loving, forgiving, compassionate, hopeful, ext. as me, sometimes more so. Although there are hateful people in every religion.
2007-06-15 01:18:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Before my darling Gwen and I "came out" and I was still welcome at her family home I was lectured interminably on why, as a Methodist, I was a spawn of Satan. Nothing nasty at that time, just a desire to purify my soul.
Heaven help us all.
Rose P.
2007-06-15 01:20:37 · answer #10 · answered by rose p 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no it is the ones that are outside of my religion that i find to be ursed with these things.
2007-06-15 01:20:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋