I cant understand why religious people use their religion to do good?

Question

let me comment as a former muslim right.

Have you seen how muslims come to Q/A and keep posting questions and answers about how islam teaches them to be good and a load of nonsense such as

treating non muslims with kindness
helping the poor
not murdering others
treating women with fairness

and they say islam teaches them to do these acts which i dont believe it does
but anyway my question to these people are,

why use islam to make you be good? dont you know that a person does not need religion or god to teach him that murder, opperssing others, treating women badly and treating non believers badly is wrong?

what we need is a clear conscience and not religion right?

Answer 1

Yes, a clear consciense is all we need, then we will all tolerate each others viewpoints.

Like you do.

(sarcasm in case you didn't get it.)

Answer 2

Naweed you know you where never a muslim sir. Who are you trying to fool?

Muslim do not use islam "to make you be good" (nice grammer) As human beings we know what is good, bad , moral and imoral without faith teaching it. Faith reinforces it, and opens your heart to going beyond "being good" and to be conscious of ever word, deed and action. There are many "bad and imoral" people of faith. Faith does not make you good sorry there are plenty of examples of immoral and cruel acts by people of faith.
Muslims say we treat other with respect, we help the poor, condon murder and treat women with equality and respect because so many times her (people like you) say we are not treated as equal or with respect so if you dont want muslims saying it stop spreading lies and hate for us to defend.
I had a clear conscience before reverting to Islam and I have a clear consciene after.
Did i give in charity before i became a muslim? Yes i did of course. But Islam made it have more meaning, more selflessness, more giving. It didnt teach me helping the poor was the right thing to do, i knew already but i made my heart open even further. My mother is the most selfless person i know (she is not a muslim) As a child we would be driving home in the dark, she would see an old lady at the bus stop ask her where she was going and did she want a lift. My mother would drive sometimes an hour in the opposite direction of where we lived all across to the other side of the city, just so the old lady would not have to wait in the cold. My mother asked nothing in return this is just her nature. She fostered children no one else wanted, worked looking after the elderly and everyone she looks after loves her because she does silly things like dress up and sing them old songs from when they where young to make them laugh. She shows them love and affection even when their own children are not interested. Having her as a mother taught me good from bad, right from wrong. She taught me to think for myself and never to treat other in a way that you would not want others to treat you or your loved ones. Did my mother learn this from faith? Yes and no. We are all products of our enviroments a mix of all things. Religion, culture, family, education, just life. I feel sorry that you feel the need to classify everyone of either faith bad, non faith good, I have said this to you many times but this time i really, really,really feel sorry for you, you are lacking something and i hope you find it.

What teaches you to be a liar a fake and a phoney? To say your an ex muslim when your not, to pose as a woman when your a man, to say you have lung cancer and give a totally fake appolgy to all those you cloned and insulted? You have a clear conscience do you?

Religion is about worshiping God and following his laws. I am who i am because of how my parents raised me and how i have been on a path in life and experienced the rollercoaster ride of life like everyone else. My faith does not dictate how i behave it has a guide true but even those of faith do not necessarily follow it.

Answer 3

What concerns me most is that IF these are the ideals of Islam... why doesn't the entire world Islamic community openly condemn those who act against these principles in the name of Islam?
What we NEED is a moral society... WE don't have that. It is not religion's fault.

Answer 4

Right, ppl CAN be good without having a religion BUT --if you do good just to do good your reward will only be in this life. If you do good for the love of God your reward will be in the hereafter and since that lasts forever it is more important.


It even says something to that extent in the bible but I don't remember where.

Answer 5

No i grow to be compelled to pass to church whilst youthful. Then i found my faith in God whilst i grow to be searching fishing and taking part in and discovering of Gods creation and humanity analyze. Then I had a run in with devil's secret Underworld Society who tried to rigidity me into worship of all Gods which comprise Lucifer. This cult works in soul slavery by using bondage/slavery to witchraft/Demonic forces. besides i grow to be Salted with hearth and not purely have self assurance yet be responsive to that Jesus Christ is God Almighty! i be responsive to that I have not any determination yet to have faith the actuality in God the father Jesus Christ the Son and the Holy Ghost.

Answer 6

Religionists always tell us what the ideals of their religion are. They don't say, and perhaps don't admit to themselves, that the reality of their religion is nothing at all like the ideal. For example, be peaceful, but only to those who follow your exact interpretation of your own religion, the one and only true religion.

Answer 7

What do you call religious???? I know a lot of religious people, they play football religiously, drink religiously, go clubbing religiously, work religiously, shop religiously, serve on organisations religiously, and never stepped foot in Church once. They are ignorant, as they are actually the religous ones, not the followers of the Living God.

Answer 8

Well...I dunno about Islam, but I use my religion for nothing. If I do good it's because *I* want to do good. God never told me to join Greenpeace, to be a blood donor(or organ donor), to help in soup kitchens, etc...

I do it because I think it's the right thing to do and I don't do it to convert the non-believers, or anything of that sort.

Answer 9

my question to you is, why use ur identity to make Islam look bad when its not?

"Ignorance harms a man more than a cancer in his body"

Answer 10

Maybe we don't need governments either, since conscience is enough.