| raptors11 said: I am religious but I don't believe that Godlessness = lack of morality. I do think religion gives people a good set of guidelines to live by (teaches not to steal, kill, lie, commit adultery, etc.) that atheists are missing but I don't think that means atheists are bad people or don't have morales. I know a few people who consider themselves christians but choose to ignore the bible and do things like shoplift, lie/gossip, cheat, etc. |
The problem with saying that religion gives you moral guidelines is that the people propogating that religion could choose whatever guidelines they wanted their followers to believe, and teach them those exclusively. This leads to a potentially skewed vision of the world. Teach a child logic and they can find morals themselves.
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