old superstitions. Of what value is a religion that tells people what they already know instinctively?
2007-09-02 11:07:47 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You need to read up on your history.
There are plenty of cases down through history of when people clearly did not know right from wrong. (I.e. Roman Colisseum, Inquisition, The Crusades, The Jihads, The Soviet purges and gulags, The Holocaust, slavery.) These people all thought they were doing right and many thought they were doing the work of God, but were clearly wrong.
The human race is brutal, cruel, and helpless and left to it's own devices...is hopelessly lost without God.
2007-09-02 11:18:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, but not to certain religions being just old superstitions. I give everyone the right to be who they are and believe what they want to believe. I think if someone truly believes that they can be saved, then they will be. Just like you said, I think it's wrong for people to try to insult other people and judge other people by religious standards.
The only thing that will save someone in the end, is their own belief in a higher power, not to the man-made bible or religions.
2007-09-02 11:14:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If everybody knew right from wrong instinctively then why are the prisons full? I agree with you up to a point but it takes a faith in a Supreme Being...God... to make sure that there is an impetus in the heart to keep on the straight and narrow despite what a person knows instinctively.
2007-09-02 11:15:32 · answer #3 · answered by Ahmad H 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who decides what is right, or wrong?
Its not known naturally.
You're fooling yourself if you think that.
Someone with the proper authority must inform humankind what is to be considered right, or wrong.
Who has that authority?
You're not going to decide for me.
Agreed, a religion of 'old superstition' shouldn't decide either.
However, it seems logical that our Maker could have some insight on this subject.
Let's give him a listening ear.
You want to call that religion?
OK
2007-09-02 11:15:43 · answer #4 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some people doubt their instincts. for example, a guy is playing roulette, and his "instinct" tells him to play 21, but then he loses. He then starts to doubt what his God-given morals tell him to do. Religion gives us a written moral code to look to in times of crisis.
And by the way, not ALL religions are superstitious.
2007-09-02 11:13:50 · answer #5 · answered by YouCannotKnowUnlessUAsk 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We know what is right and wrong by law. If we had no law then you can rest assured that all would be right in their own mind. Every one would do right by their own counsel.
The laws God set down were to let us know the right from the wrong.
The religions of the world have many flaws, but the God of Abraham, Israel, and King David is not flawed. His salvation isn't about being right or wrong but about faith, and working to do right rather than wrong.
2007-09-02 11:15:33 · answer #6 · answered by the old dog 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
once you assert bash, it looks you're talking of people who intentionally denigrate yet another's thought gadget, notwithstanding if this is non secular or not. i've got faith planned is an significant key-word. notwithstanding i haven't understood the planned nature of publishing (posting) messages that are crammed with 0.5-truths or outright falsehoods, the actual nature of the guy comes for the period of whilst he starts off to call those of the religion, incorrect, and refuses to settle for what they declare as being part of their faith. In my strategies, the only purpose is to break and is strangely observed via hatred, bordering on fanaticism, even to the component the place, if available, they could become violent in the direction of their objectives. they choose some severe and specialist help approximately social habit.
2016-11-14 00:34:02 · answer #7 · answered by vereen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Morality is based on common sense and history reveals that morality based on absolutes is not specific to any religion. So no religion has a monopoly on morality.
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2007-09-02 11:12:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion is all about maintaining the power, wealth and prestige of the religious leaders, and moral commandments are part of the marketing strategy.
2007-09-02 11:11:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
These "old superstitions" as found in the Testament of Jesus Christ, and in the Old Testament, can lead you down the winding road to eternal paradise. Don't throw away the gift of your soul so willingly.
2007-09-02 11:12:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋