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you don't have to be religious
to have morals
and right and wrong can be pretty well discerned almost naturally. you harm,k you do wrong.
life is a process of learning to harm less.
at one time, religion was the guid to morality because people had a belief in something outside of themselves that would steer human affairs.
beginning with Yeshua (Jesus), the teaching has been to look within oneself for that higher self -- the "Christ within you", as Paul wrote.
we as individuals no longer need religion as a "vicar" of what true salvation is, which is recognizing that you are quite all right and so is everyone else -- then live your life accordingly.
posted by
Xeno-x
on November 17, 2006 at 9:02 AM
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kooka_lives - the type of comment you use as an example illustrates more
than the author's lack of comprehensive skills.
It also demonstrates for us that some folks are just simply clueless when it comes to defining the non believing mind set. A willingness to defer to a lifetime of conditioning by religious folks that paints non believers as some kind of bogeyman insures that they will never get it. I find it incredibly hilarious when we have some of these knuckleheads demonstrate their inability to discern right from wrong by utilizing deception and lies in attempts to vilify you or I . . . then have the audacity to suggest that non believers do not or cannot discern right from wrong. Too funny....
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gomedome
on November 17, 2006 at 6:53 AM
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Kooka
Cleary people have varied abilities to discern right from wrong. The issue is not so much whether something is right or wrong as it is whether or not the person has embarked along the path that he THOUGHT was the right one. This is where belief comes in. One must become aware of his ability to make a moral choice and “believe in” that ability enough to pursue the course. It requires that we develop a faith or willingness to adhere to what is right. I do not think the atheist is necessarily immoral so much as I think that the atheist refuses to elevate morality as the foremost thing in his life. I’m talking about arriving at the point in life where one “asserts their belief” in the moral way and then commits themselves to follow it.
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telemachus
on November 17, 2006 at 12:24 AM
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