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The thing is you don't have to decide there isn't a God, you don't have to change your religion at all, if you have any, to be a good person. We see a very voca

by sosuke 12y ago

The thing is you don't have to decide there isn't a God, you don't have to change your religion at all, if you have any, to be a good person. We see a very vocal minority who are so loud, obnoxious and get so much air time we think there are a lot of them. I choose to believe there are far more good, moderate and reasonable religious people than there are idiots I see plastered on TV spouting nonsense. Being a good person is not connected in anyway with belief. Christianity already made a new branch to handle all the branches http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Nondenominational_Christianity http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Nondenominational_Christianity

k-mcgrady 12y ago
>> "The thing is you don't have to decide there isn't a God, you don't have to change your religion at all, if you have any, to be a good person." Of course. My comment was made as someone who 'doesn't know' but leans towards theism. And you certainly don't need religion to be a good person but as with any writings/teachings there can be value there. For example some people find the guidance of the writings by the Stoics useful. If we took the element of God out of the bible and distilled it down to useful teachings on life I wonder how useful non-religious people would find it. Would it be useful in a similar way to the writings of the Stoics for example?
- VLM 12y ago
  >> "If we took the element of God out of the bible and distilled it down to useful teachings on life I wonder how useful non-religious people would find it." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible Thomas Jefferson. Yeah... that Thomas Jefferson... not just some random dude with a common name. There is a propaganda campaign to convince people that americans were united as hard core puritan evang neocon christians continuously from the earliest days until a very recent fall like when the Beatles arrived, but that fantasy has nothing to do with reality, of course.
treehau5 12y ago
Actually, Christianity never branched, and has remained virtually unaltered since the first day of Pentecost. http://orthodoxwiki.org/Main_Page http://orthodoxwiki.org/Main_Page
nitrogen 12y ago
Being a good person is not connected in anyway with belief. Not strictly, no, but belief influences decisions, so false beliefs can lead to bad decisions.

by sosuke 12y ago

k-mcgrady 12y ago

>> "The thing is you don't have to decide there isn't a God, you don't have to change your religion at all, if you have any, to be a good person." Of course. My comment was made as someone who 'doesn't know' but leans towards theism. And you certainly don't need religion to be a good person but as with any writings/teachings there can be value there. For example some people find the guidance of the writings by the Stoics useful. If we took the element of God out of the bible and distilled it down to useful teachings on life I wonder how useful non-religious people would find it. Would it be useful in a similar way to the writings of the Stoics for example?

VLM 12y ago
>> "If we took the element of God out of the bible and distilled it down to useful teachings on life I wonder how useful non-religious people would find it." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible Thomas Jefferson. Yeah... that Thomas Jefferson... not just some random dude with a common name. There is a propaganda campaign to convince people that americans were united as hard core puritan evang neocon christians continuously from the earliest days until a very recent fall like when the Beatles arrived, but that fantasy has nothing to do with reality, of course.

treehau5 12y ago

Actually, Christianity never branched, and has remained virtually unaltered since the first day of Pentecost. http://orthodoxwiki.org/Main_Page http://orthodoxwiki.org/Main_Page

nitrogen 12y ago

Being a good person is not connected in anyway with belief. Not strictly, no, but belief influences decisions, so false beliefs can lead to bad decisions.