(May 15, 2011 at 2:48 pm)Girlysprite Wrote: I would also like to add that while hell and heaven might be motivators for some religious people, the mind-warping effect of the horribly vague 'moral guide' that the bible seems to be erases any positive effect it could ever have. Just think of the horrible things done in the name of religion.
You may know the old saying...'good people do good things, evil people to evil things, but for good people to do evil things it takes religion.'
The way I see it, ultimately, those that seek god as the ultimate judge rely on the illusion that in the end all evil deeds will not go unpunished. Think about it, a rapist a murderer, a pedophile reaching the end of his life unblemished. This raises anxiety on people if they think into it(it does on me). If you believe hard in the ultimate justice it is easier to dispell that anxiety.
As to that saying, it is utterly false, simply because there are other factors that can make a good man do bad things, and that saying, subterfudgely implies that religion is the only thing that can. There are a whole bunch of experiments done on this subject that proves it.
