Comments on: You do not need religion to be moral http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/ Resources for skeptical, de-converting, or former Christians...... Sat, 18 May 2013 21:34:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: kei http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-53745 Wed, 02 May 2012 17:18:51 +0000 http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-53745 Topic should change to if society needs religion. One person does not need religion to be moral but society does need religion to have something to look up to and follow, and help judge for himself ethical decisions.

]]> By: blesin http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-52408 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:17:02 +0000 http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-52408 yes man be moral without religion distractin him

]]> By: Karl http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-51273 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:32:59 +0000 http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-51273 No we do not need doctrines to be moral. An alternative:

http://onlinephilosophyclub.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4760

]]> By: jeff http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-44414 Wed, 19 May 2010 13:26:02 +0000 http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-44414 If we have respect we don’t need religion! It’s time to grow up and own our actions.

]]> By: Elijah http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-43131 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:10:25 +0000 http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-43131 First I would like to address you all in gratitude for the intellectual maturity it takes to share these views without dissension; secondly, I would like to say I have only seen seventeen years here on Earth, and have done my fair share of Lying, stealing, and emotionally injuring other Human beings, I have faced much err.
I would like to validate Christianity in the regards that the spirit of Jesus the Christ, whether psychosomatic or not is real. On that note, I also add that as in Nature, Diversity is perhaps one of “gods” greatest gifts. You have legs to stand on…
I as a young child had not learned religion, science, philosophies or culture, but had a Full-fledged morality; upon joining public schooling at age four in northern California in the United States of America, I began losing my intuitive mode of correct conduct and after years of growth found myself rebelling full swing in my early teens. I ran away from home at fifteen, two years ago, traveled thousands of miles encountering Monks, Cults, spirituals, and religious folk.
I say this only to exhibit I have some experience to draw from; Now what I intended to share here on this blog was not my history but rather:
Thoughts and feelings are generated by our Conscious and sub-Conscious mind’s reaction to external stimuli(fact), When we discontinue (if only for a moment) our logical, linear thought streams throughout the layers of our psyche;(from my own experience) our beliefs, perceptions, and individual realities cease to exist, in that moment,singularly it is our senses that remain; i.e. thought depends upon our will to be sustained; it is an insubstantial creating of functionality.
This experience was not taught, or memorized, it was a genuine experience I discovered while in the friendship with a Buddhist, it is called meditation. All this struggling for validity through whatever means, in which we have all taken, is only competition of minds and our INDIVIDUAL perception of the Earthly reality, most of us unwilling to detach from our experience generated perspectives, which are only existent because we will them too.
Elijah Z

]]> By: antiCatholic http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-43024 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:42:01 +0000 http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-43024 Jesus was tortured, murdered and forsaken by God. Now it’s pretty easy to see who is right and who is wrong.

]]> By: cag http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-41448 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:50:01 +0000 http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-41448 Noogatiger #22

No, the truth is we have been making our own moral laws since the dawn of our existence. Some people just labeled it as Gods law so they could make others abide by them.

There is an error in this sentence:
No, the truth is we have been making our own moral laws since the dawn of our existence. Some people just labeled it as Gods law so they could make others abide bypay for them.

]]> By: shaminta http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-41440 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:55:52 +0000 http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-41440 i really liked ur article :) very inspiring :)

]]> By: Roy http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-37567 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:58:58 +0000 http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-37567 Yes. His “The God Delusion” is an *excellent* book that I would enthusiastically recommend to the open-minded Christian reader. With all due respect to George, in all honesty I doubt that close-minded Christians would get much more out of it than a chance to further rail against atheists. But I could be wrong.

]]> By: Ana http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-37565 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:47:16 +0000 http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/04/humans-do-not-need-religion-to-be-moral/#comment-37565 “We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity ever believed in. Some of us just go one God further.” Dawkins

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