Who's the better person, a christian or a moral non religious person.?

Answer 1

A Christian. He is more Christ-like.

Answer 2

Being affiliated with a religious belief doesn't gain you morals. So being of Christian faith doesn't mean you are automatically a moral person nor does the Bible offer any original moral codes that have already been established by works or peoples before it.

Although the origins of morals are as a whole still a mystery, studies of apes and other animals have suggested that moral ideas or what is good (happiness) and evil (murder) is innate to us.

I choose the moral non-religious person as a better person because their morals are most likely driven by reason and intellect rather than hypocritical blind faith.

Answer 3

Any moral person is a "better" person. Being Christian does not automatically make you a "better" person, and to think that is being an egotistical nimwit.

I'm a Pagan, I have very good morals, in fact, I've the same morals as many "true" Christians. Don't hurt/kill people, respect your elders, be polite, don't do anything illegal, etc etc. The only thing different? I have a different set of religious beliefs.

Answer 4

Not all christians are moral. look at history, most christians have blamed millions of various people for idiotic things over the course of history. Witch trials is the biggest. And look at present day, there are a surprising amount of people, including if not mostly (considering christianity is the largest religion in the country) christians who point finger at a whole group of people for what some of them are doing. Not all muslims are bad, not all arabs are bad.

I suppose it doesn't matter what religion the person is as long as they are caring and open-minded.

Answer 5

Neither is good. The human heart is desperately wicked whether it is in a christian or a moral non religious person. A personal relationship with Jesus Christ is the only way to change the evil nature of any human being. Even after salvation occurs you will still sin but at least when you die all those sins will not be seen by God since God will see you through the perfect life that Jesus lived.

Answer 6

it would depend on whether the christian was also a moral person. despite what many think, the terms christian and moral aren't synonymous.

one would have to assume the non religious person until the christian's morality had been determined.

that said, methods of judging morality are kind of sketchy at best. best to avoid comparing people.

Answer 7

A moral person is good and that really has nothing to do with religious belief, only a foolish person actually believe there are no moral people outside of their own religion.

Answer 8

Morality also comes from teachings - which can be rather dubious. Take Jim Jones as a study.
But an ethical non religious person is the better one.

Answer 9

Any moral person, depending on the morality, I suppose.

Religion is a poor predictor of morality. So, the Christian could be moral or amoral. If you're saying that the non-religious person is moral, then that would be, by definition, a better person.

Answer 10

Anyobdy who answers this question is judging an entire group of people. There are moral non religous people who get it wrong and there are christians who get it wrong. In the same way there are ones who get it right. The better person shouldn't be judged on wether they are christian or moral non religous people, but on who they are as people in themselves

Answer 11

If given a choice between tho two, I would have to answer that a moral non religious person is better as they wouldn't be biased toward any religion. No bias = no discrimination.