RE: BEASTIALITY
September 2, 2015 at 11:52 pm
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2015 at 11:53 pm by *Deidre*.)
(September 2, 2015 at 11:37 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(September 2, 2015 at 11:19 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: No, I don't think you mean it like that...I think you are motivated by your religion to do good things. That's why you said it. And I'm here to suggest to you, you don't need religion to do anything good in this life. Catholicism has been selling that lie for a very long time, though.
A see what you're saying.
Well to clarify, it's not that my faith is the reason why I do good things, it's that my faith can sometimes help explain why certain things are objectively immoral.
Ok, I see. How does your faith explain something though that you could simply reason for yourself?
If we removed religion out of the world, you will still have people who fuck animals, but I have a sneaking suspicion that they will still be few and far between. Altruism is actually part of the evolutionary process, not of religion. If we removed religion out of the world, murder, stealing, cheating, harming others, lying, etc...would still SEEM intrinsically wrong on various levels, and there will still be people who break the law, etc. But, perhaps you believe that a god instilled in all of us this ability to discern right from wrong...an examination of conscience, if you will. But, you know what is funny, the only thing that separates you from atheists, is ....belief. If you stop believing, does god go away? It would seem that way, so how objectively real and moral can he be?
