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Well most religious people are good. Most non-religious people are good. Morality is not enhanced by religion. If anyone acts for the promise of heaven it's an essentially selfish act. Some religions claim that everyone who doesn't believe them is going to hell. That's most of the people alive today and throughout history. That's certainly not moral. The God of the bible is incredibly racist and homophobic, much like Allah. Buddhism and other philosophical religions tend to be much less extreme, and hence more moral. However, this has no effect on whether they're true.
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What is your yardstick for goodness? Love, compassion & care? If you truly love, it will be self sacrificial. You'll always put others before yourself if you're truly good and not fake good. Fake good is being good so others notice.
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What is your yardstick for goodness? Love, compassion & care? If you truly love, it will be self sacrificial. You'll always put others before yourself if you're truly good and not fake good. Fake good is being good so others notice.
Being truly good is doing good when no one is watching. You will always have empathy toward everyone if your compassion is on the truly good scale. You will always care for others in need if you're truly good. My question is, do you really want to be truly good? It's a lot of work. Maybe "good enough" should be your goal. Otherwise, you will fail.
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(apologies) The gospel that is nature in itself, can teach a person that, even for a forest to regerminateit has to burn down first.
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I think that the problem is the degree which people percieve this, "good" term. The gospel that is nature in itself, can teach a person that, even for a forest to regerminate. perception is just what gets in the way at times.
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I think that the problem is the degree which people percieve this, "good" term. The gospel that is nature in itself, can teach a person that, even for a forest to regerminate. perception is just what gets in the way at times.
Namaste
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we can't in and of ourselves, but we CAN be made righteous through the saving blood of Christ.
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Sam Harris offers a secular, scientific answer to this question, if you are interested.
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Sam Harris offers a secular, scientific answer to this question, if you are interested.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTKf5cCm-9g
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I think it is mostly user error. Religion is just a practice of connecting with the God in us all, no matter the name. Religion, as an example of how to live one's life, is an abstraction of what it means to simply be, "I am". It is when we take the symbols of religion, and try to make sense of the abstract, that our monkey minds get us into trouble. We think of Jesus as this human freak whose life is to be worshiped, not used. So, good comes from being aware of all the good there is in the world, while also understanding that the good inside of yourself is also the good in the world.
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The thing that has been noticed before goes like this
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The thing that has been noticed before goes like this
There are good people who do good things
there are bad people who do bad things,
and this will always be so
but to make good people do bad things - this takes Religion.
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100 Years ago, the son of the founder of the Baha'i Faith, Abdul Baha, left after touring around america for 3 months, speaking at churches, synagogs and public meeting places. As he left America, this was his final talk to those gathered there.
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