| cleveland124 said: I didn't infer that only religous individuals have morals. My point was if you don't start with a religion how can you say anyone is wrong in their beliefs? Assume no God. I go kill person B because I wanted something of his. How can you say this is wrong? If you impose some sort of group theory you could argue that said individual is valuable to the group and thus I shouldn't have killed him. But what if he wasn't valuable to the group. Then maybe it was good that I killed him. Either way, without religion individuals are only held responsible to themselves, not the group. |
Almost every animal in the wild only kills for food. They don't kill for fun (ironically, that's just humans, and a very select number of animals).
So why don't animals just go kill for the hell of it? They never had a god tell them it's wrong.
I have never believed in god, but I would never kill anyone. I would realize how my family would feel if it was done to me, and realize that there families would feel the same way with him gone. I would not want to be responsible for the misfortune on anyone.
Humanity teaches me this. Not religion. There are many other reasons not too kill another man. Are you telling me that in your view of the world that the only reason you don't do so is because God would be mad at you?
I hope that's not the only reason you don't kill people
