If your answer is something about giving us a moral code to live by...well...you don't need religion to have morals.
2007-09-26 15:09:25 · 8 answers · asked by fiddle_stick 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It only matters to the person practicing it.
2007-09-26 15:13:35 · answer #1 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am agnostic (and moral) and agree with you that morality is not exclusive to the religious. Religion, however, in my opinion, matters in two ways, one positive, one negative. In the plus category religion can inspire sincere practitioners to live altruistic and honorable lives. To my thinking, it is detrimental when the religious endeavor to control the government and to impose their narrow beliefs upon others in opposition to the Constitution's mandate against the establishment of a state-sponsored religion.
2007-09-26 22:21:27 · answer #2 · answered by Lynci 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't mean a thing to me in the spiritual sense of the word. I didn't read where Jesus said that you had to believe in religion to be saved. He DID say that I had to believe in Him, and then I won't be condemned.
So 'religion' as a word does not mean much to me, but the relationship that I have with God is most important.
2007-09-26 22:24:56 · answer #3 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there IS a supreme deity that created the universe and everything within it - don't you think that would matter ?
Imagine a child's relationship with their parents & then 100 times more.
2007-09-26 22:16:04 · answer #4 · answered by dryheatdave 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it really does not. A life saving and personal relationship with our Maker matters.
2007-09-26 22:20:07 · answer #5 · answered by Nina, BaC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it's the person's connection to God and not religion that matters
2007-09-26 22:15:10 · answer #6 · answered by Doc 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Has a lot to do with dying without God.
2007-09-26 22:15:17 · answer #7 · answered by elaine 30705 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a matter of FAITH how strong it is it doesn't matter what group or sector and practise it righteously
2007-09-26 22:21:52 · answer #8 · answered by u2_rich 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋