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religion and being a good person...
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why so many religious people believe that you cannot be a good person if you are not religious...?
someone on here once said ' but how can you possibly know how to be good without god in your life?'
cant remember who - it was ages ago, but i remmembered it because i was gobsmacked at what an idiotic comment it was
as though you would behave like a maniac and do terrible things unless 'someone' told you not to...
to me, being a good person is a part of humanity, of instinctively knowing right from wrong, and learning by example...it had nothing to do with gods word or religion.
why on earth do they believe this? it defies logic.
and given the atrocities committed in the name of religion its also laughable
what do you think?
someone on here once said ' but how can you possibly know how to be good without god in your life?'
cant remember who - it was ages ago, but i remmembered it because i was gobsmacked at what an idiotic comment it was
as though you would behave like a maniac and do terrible things unless 'someone' told you not to...
to me, being a good person is a part of humanity, of instinctively knowing right from wrong, and learning by example...it had nothing to do with gods word or religion.
why on earth do they believe this? it defies logic.
and given the atrocities committed in the name of religion its also laughable
what do you think?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.'God' has never told us (the human race in it's entirety) anything about right or wrong. This information has always come from humans in whichever form that may be in so that's that out of the way.
The glib statement from Mr lewis says nothing because he himself did not try to describe what a 'straight road' is. Had he tried he would possibly have realised that there is no such thing, zoom in enough and all roads are crooked. A truly straight road can only exist in people's minds, never in reality, which makes this analogy very good but it actually means the opposite of what he thought: In the real world there is NO absolute right, and therefore no absolute wrong, the judgement of how wrong something is depends on who is doing the judging.
The glib statement from Mr lewis says nothing because he himself did not try to describe what a 'straight road' is. Had he tried he would possibly have realised that there is no such thing, zoom in enough and all roads are crooked. A truly straight road can only exist in people's minds, never in reality, which makes this analogy very good but it actually means the opposite of what he thought: In the real world there is NO absolute right, and therefore no absolute wrong, the judgement of how wrong something is depends on who is doing the judging.