Can You Tell Right From Wrong?

[goodlife]

Of course I do,’ you might say. Yet today’s rapidly deteriorating moral standards indicate it is not so.

[anaxcrosswords]

And that’s exactly the problem with religious scripture, whatever the faith. For every apparent truth there’s a wealth of yeah-but-no-but-yeah contradiction and re-interpretation. You spend your life in a fruitless attempt to unravel it and die having achieved nothing.

[goodlife]

The Bible was written for True Christians. Most of you here are atheists, so how can you criticize that which is not applicable to yourselves (according to you).You say you don't believe in God, or the Bible. So according to the standards of atheists, what is right and wrong? Is terrorism the answer? If God does not enter the equation, then people don't have his standards.

With regard to the question of blood! Go do more research! Medical authorities acknowledge that people who do not have blood have better chances of survival than those who do. Blood is cheap and does not require the skill that is needed for those who refuse blood.

[Khandro]

Birdie; He has a point. Though I have often given blood, but now classed as "too old" - ouch! and I would accept blood if it would perhaps save my life, it is when you think about it an extraordinary thing to do, and it can be (and has been) the cause of the passing on of a large amount of known, and perhaps unknown diseases and deficiencies.

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1389957-overview gives some information and there are lots more internet sites.

[ludwig]

Not always. I once tested a mousetrap by sticking my finger in it. It turns out this was definitely the wrong thing to do.

[naomi24]

Goodlife, //If God does not enter the equation, then people don't have his standards. //

That surely has to be a good thing. If we all had his standards we'd all be committing murder on a regular basis.

[goodlife]

You should see the root of the trouble? Will merely prosecuting as a Atheist
correct it?

[vulcan42]

Fact, according to the avatar, the JW org speak more than 400 languages, a great pity English isn't one of them.
\\ You should see the root of the trouble? Will merely prosecuting as a Atheist
correct it? //
What does this mean?

[goodlife]

Here are some sites to look at.


https://www.ahn.org/specialties/bloodless-medicine
http://www.womensheart.org/content/HeartSurgery/bloodless_care.asp

http://www.pennmedicine.org/bloodless/about/advantages.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12466831/ns/health-health_care/t/bloodless-surgery-avoids-risks-transfusion/#.VelZvzZRGM8

[retrocop]

I learnt right from wrong at an early age over 60 years ago.
If I did right I got a pat on the head and maybe some sweets.
If I did wrong I got a clip round the ear hole and sent to bed. :-)

[Khandro]

Birdie; I'm not looking for argument but just want to mediate, as I said earlier he (and they) do have a point. Have you seen;
http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/blood-transfusion/basics/risks/prc-20021256
Blood is an extraordinary substance containing millions of ingredients, some testable - hepatitis etc. and some not. I live, walk and play golf in an area of high risk from tic bites, and so have injections against contracting Lymes disease, a good thing perhaps, but antibodies would be in any blood I donated. Your blood may contain other things you have been inoculated against. Blood groups were only discovered about a 100 years ago long-term effects of mixing blood could lead to a lot of unknown complications, though having said that it can and does save lives every day.