What happens when your religion and your morality collides?

Answer 1

If you have any personal integrity, you reconsider your religion.

I was raised Christian, and I left because of just such a collision.

Answer 2

If they collide and you believe your religion is correct then you better change. If you dont know if your religion is correct and they collide then maybe you should look for a new religion.

Integrity means sticking to your values and morals even when it gets hard. Do you have more integrity to your religious convictions, or your personal moral beliefs?

You really should belong to a religion where they are harmonious, not contentious.

Answer 3

Some choose religion, some choose morality. If you choose morality, good for you: letting go of the easy answers religion provides allows you to really face the big questions in life and see the true wonder of the universe. If you choose religion at the expense of morality, I'm more than a little worried: that's what creates radicals ready to commit horrifying evils against humanity.

Answer 4

How can two walk together unless they agree to go in the same direction. If my morality is different than the God I serve then we do not walk together. That means I'm walking alone at my own pace, which could ulimately mean that I walk so far away from God that I can't hear or see Him in my life anymore. That is what happens when religion and morality do not line up in agreement with one another.

Answer 5

do the two exist beside each other seperately? I find that religion and spirituality, while they do go hand in hand, are often in conflict except when they are broken down to the indaviduals needs. There are many things that organised religion condone that are indeed unjust.One voice can`t change that on its own. On a personal level though I can, simply by example.

Answer 6

Story. Two monks (who have vowed to give up all physical and emotional contact with women) where walking near a river. They saw a women who was injured and needed help across the river. One of the monks carried her across the river to her shelter. Two hours later of walking one monk said to the other monk. "Why did you break you vows to carry that woman across the river?" The other Monk said "I put her down two hours ago, why are you still carrying her?" My understanding is there is always time place and circumstance. Religion is something that is to help one progress spiritually when it stops one from doing good or right then it must be rejected for a higher understanding. We have to know our self and ask what would please the creator most. Sometimes that means breaking a so called religious principle. Fanaticism happens when one forgets to love and protect and care in the name of Religion.

Answer 7

well, then I'd say we are breaking at least one of the 10 commandments. they are given as a moral guidance for our lives. As in any circumstance of sinning, we then have to decide, will we continue in sin, or choose to turn away from it, and live a life of virture and choosing the good and avoiding what is evil. We have to, if we want to be saved.

Answer 8

That's the time to question both, toss your religion in the trash heap, and then reevaluate your situation. The same advice is useful for anything at all about you that collides with your religion.

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Answer 9

They don't. I'm Buddhist and have a very good understanding of it.

Often, I am in the middle of things and so be it, I'm on the middle path. I would need an example to better dive into such a question, though.

Answer 10

Atheists and agnostics dont have a set code of conduct or belief... so i am free to make my own decisions based off of my morality and basic human values.

Answer 11

How would they collide? my morality is founded in my religion.