Quote: wannabuyamonkey said:I'm not just trying to be contrary, seriously, but I've often thought that people who deny the existance of God or at least a God who's actively involved in this world and with us people do so so that thay feel safe and protected. It's easy to say you take responsibility for your own actions if you can convince yourself that no-one is there to see what you do when no one is watching or that no one can really tell how you truly feel about people. Anyone who is truly moral wouldn't try to define morality by thier own standards but recognise that they ae accountable for thier hidden sins as well as the public ones.
The only one you're ever truly accountable to is yourself, your own conscience. A moral person wouldn't be moral because they feel they're always being watched and judged, they'd be moral because they wouldn't be able to allow themselves to act in a horrible way. They wouldn't want to act in a horrible way.
fair enoug, but with either philosophy there ARE most likely people who do it because it makes them feel safe and secure, but that doesn't disprove anything. If I have to jump out of an air plane I'll wear a parachute because it makes me feel safe and secure. My feelings however don't change the fact however that I AM safer with the parachute than without it. People have motives for everything they do. Two people can have polar oposite belief systems and yet have them for the exact same reason.
Putting the "fun" back in Fundamentalist Christian Dogma.
" I know God exists because WBAM told me so. " - theory9
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