Question to Theists About the Source of Morality

[God of Mr. Hanky]

It sometimes isn't always easy however, reconciling for lack of a better word, my own worldviews, my own sense of morality...with some of what the Bible proposes. But, having come back to faith, it seems likely that compassion and so on is what we should all strive for, more so than condemning people who aren't following a certain 'brand' of morality. Christianity has so many sects, too...you could put 500 Christians in a room, and all 500 of us will disagree as to what morality means. lol I have a friend who used to be a Jehovah's Witness and she would tell me how strict the moral 'code' was for them, which just struck me as stifling, and really not very freeing. (no offense to JW's, but just giving an example of how far reaching it all can go, when it comes to religious interpretations of morality)

Glad you raised that point. The runaway proliferation of conflicting religious doctrine can make the idea of deciding for oneself on the difference between good and evil altogether bewildering, when in fact it is anything but in most cases. Yes, navigating life without a pedantic rule book leaves gray many areas which are made strictly black or white by theistic doctrines (e.g. abortion or individual autonomy regarding one's own existence when suffering from a terminal illness), but this in itself creates more options which enable us to justly consider each given situation as it comes - from this much better results should be expected than rules which make everything black or white and often make any good living impossible! The bonus is that you would tend to make decisions with dramatically fewer incidences of conflict with others when everyone is deciding not by religious rules, but by their own sense of justice which owes partly to genes, and the rest through the experience of living on this planet - we would all be surprised just how much we have in common if we didn't have our lives directed by religious rules!