2007-06-17 02:25:38 · 23 answers · asked by dougietrotter1945 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Church does not have the monopoly on moral behavior. Some of the finest people I've known have been agnostics or atheists. They were good people because it was the right thing to do, not because they feared burning in hell.
2007-06-17 02:41:58 · answer #1 · answered by stonecutter 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do you actually think morals can be taught just once a week? It is a 24.7.365 lesson. We learn our moral "code" from the people we see constantly. A large number of people think because they go to church on Sunday/Sat. and ask for forgiveness that gives them a ticket to act how they want for the other 6 days...NOT TRUE. Church is intended to spread a message that we should keep with us all week not a one time slap in the face of morality.
2007-06-17 02:34:35 · answer #2 · answered by Cristi Brewer-Allen 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Church is a place of worship. I do not believe in the christian God. Therefor why should I be made to go to church? We were made to go to church in primary school and I hated it. I just fell asleep really. Didn't learn anything other than christianity isn't for me.
Its parents that should be teaching morals. You can't force people to do anything.
2007-06-17 02:33:52 · answer #3 · answered by sparkle 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. Forcing 'morals' upon anyone is a bad idea (unless they're criminals...)
As an atheist I would like to say that on the whole we are more moral than Christians, but that isn't true. Religion or lack of it really has no bearing at all on whether people are good or evil.
2007-06-17 02:30:16 · answer #4 · answered by Citizen Justin 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
...No. No one should be forced to go to church, and it's the responsibility of parents to teach their kids morals at a young age. Also, I'm a Christian who does attend church and trust me there are plenty of people who put on a little act and attend church regularly, but have no morals.
2007-06-17 02:30:13 · answer #5 · answered by Serenity 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
It's been tried and it did not work in England ,New England and other places in the 16th-17th centuries. I don't think that forced civilly-enforced church -going would improve our decadent and morally ignorant situation in the West,but teaching and living real moral philosophy and cultivating family responsibility might help.
2007-06-17 07:18:38 · answer #6 · answered by James O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it would do them no good if they don't believe in what's being taught that the church. Besides, morals are only a matter of opinion, and all morals should be taught by parents.
2007-06-17 02:32:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
They won't learn too many morals in churches. many cultures without churches or gods are very moral. You don't need religion for morals or ethics. In fact most of the most immoral and unethical people are god-botherers starting with the television evangelists and the President of the USA.
2007-06-17 02:30:52 · answer #8 · answered by tentofield 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
No. Who says the church's morals are right anyway? Teaching right and wrong is for parents not for someone in funny hat.
2007-06-17 02:30:56 · answer #9 · answered by godron_wookie 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No way!
That was tried in medieval England, and even then crime still existed; thanks to high taxes and poverty.
And what about those who belong to other faiths - or those who don't believe? Do you plan to force them to convert, as in the Crusades?
I have found that those with the highest moral standings are those that don't go to church at all.
2007-06-17 03:19:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋