I mean, you don't have spiritual rules and commandments to follow and can do what you want when you want to do it. Do you ever screw up and feel guilty about it? If so, what do you do with that guilt since you can't give it over to God?
2007-08-30 05:41:06 · 23 answers · asked by Kaliko 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If course. I feel bad, and what I do is resolve to do better in future. Simple.
2007-08-30 05:50:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Screw what up? If I hurt another person I feel guilt and do my best to apologize and make it right in most cases. If I break the law, I may be guilty but probably won't feel it, depending on the law.
But why would I feel guilty about screwing up? I don't need a "higher power" in order to follow my morals.
2007-08-30 12:52:35 · answer #2 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No spiritual rules and commandments to follow doesn't mean I can do whatever I want do when I want to. If I felt like killing someone I wouldn't do it.
Of course I feel guilty when I screw up. I just keep the guilt and try not to screw up again.
2007-08-30 12:48:55 · answer #3 · answered by Blackbird 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You people really can't seem to get this through your head, but morality does NOT begin and end with the Bible. In fact, the actual "morality" contained in the Bible is so outrageously offensive to modern sensibilities that your little Bible Study groups have to come up with disingenuous excuses for practically every text.
Atheists have all the normal human emotions, including guilt. It's just that when we do something wrong, we don't wait for some invisible Being we've invented to wax in wrath, until plied with some sort of ritual bribe (viz. "acceptance of Jesus"). We feel guilty on "first principles," if you will...lol. Meanwhile, you apparently need to be specifically warned off of axe-murdering people, and that warning needs to be backed up with fantastic supernatural threats and promises - or else you'd be out running amok with an axe at every opportunity.
2007-08-30 12:50:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why in the earth i need god to feel guilty? just because i'm an atheist doesn't make me any less human than you! and you'd feel guilt too, even if you didn't believe in god, you just think you are giving it over to god, but guilt is a human feeling, god has nothing to do with it.
2007-08-30 12:49:19 · answer #5 · answered by krishnokoli 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Im an agnostic, not an atheist, but I dont feel as though I need to 'give' my guilt to some other entity in order to deal with it.
Most peoples values are based on a moral code, that exists regardless of religion.
2007-08-30 12:51:15 · answer #6 · answered by h_a 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am so SICK of you hypocritical religious nuts thinking that just because I am an atheist that I have no morals or values.
I can think for myself and I would be willing to bet that I have better morals then most whom attend your church, also willing to bet that I am a better father and husband. The only difference is that you guys can screw up all you want, then ask forgiveness and its like it never happened. Gimme a break who should feel guilty again??
2007-08-30 12:50:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It requires being mature enough and strong enough to be able to handle your own guilty feelings rather than "giving it over to God". We don't just dismiss wrong things we did because "God" forgives us.
I feel guilty if I have done something that causes harm or upset to someone else. If there is no harm done, I do not feel guilty.
2007-08-30 13:03:43 · answer #8 · answered by Linz ♥ VT 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A lack of faith in a higher power does not beset the fact that we all are born with a natural isntinct as to what is right and wrong. Without this instinct there would be no preservation of the species. Why do lions not attack and eat each other? Because it goes against Natural Law. We are all subject to Natural Law.
2007-08-30 12:49:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When I've done something wrong, I feel guilty, and I think ridding yourself of that guilt is far better by apologizing to the person you've wronged, rather than God. Why would apologizing to God rectify the situation with whomever you wronged?
2007-08-30 12:48:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Why would i need commandments when i have basic decency towards others, common sense, and a conscience? I dont need some one to lay out everything i can and cant do for me, i can think for myself. Why would guilt have anything to do with anything else other than my own personal emotion?
2007-08-30 12:51:07 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋