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Post #680589

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Jaitea
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The merits and shortcomings of religion, spirituality, and nonbelief
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Date created
29-Dec-2013, 4:06 PM

Everybody calm.....

The moral issue,.....now the bible says that we get our moral values not just from the scriptures but god gave them to us,....hes in our head helping us to make those choices,.....so a Christian worries that society will fall if our belief in god diminishes?

.....surely god is still connected to our consciousness making us make the right decisions, or would he turn his back on us and disconnect?

The other thing that was said which answer is used time and again (on other threads here also)...._Ender said:

So if you believe in God, you can easily believe there are absolute rights and wrongs, defined by our Creator.  If you don't then in reality I don't see any true way to identify absolute rights and wrongs. 

If all the moral teachings in the bible were taken on board and obeyed the world's moral would step back a couple of thousand of years......rape, treatment of women, slavery etc.....which now in our times are unacceptable, so for morals which are laid down and unchanging,.....have changed with cultural change

Atheists have their own standards, which didn't just come to them as simply self-evident truths, but actually through a process of evolving culture.  And as culture continues to evolve, the standards of mankind will continue to change.  Thus, if there is no God, then there is no absolute right and wrong.  See my point.

I don't see your point.

Morals were laid down as I said in my previous post as a mean of law (and law in my country is still dictated by the church) the moral guide that the bible goes by was spread by christianity all over the world, so yes, the moral code we cling to originates by the good word of the bible.

As the world evolves and we are more aware of the wonders of science, we are slowly finding our place in the universe.

The laws & morals that we learned from the bible (the good ones) are of course still valid as the foundation of society......and we will still follow those laws as we continue to evolve

J