RE: Why some humans are so evil: double standards and irreligion
January 27, 2018 at 10:39 am
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2018 at 10:40 am by WinterHold.)
(January 26, 2018 at 11:15 am)Cyberman Wrote:(January 26, 2018 at 2:19 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: Books can be recited, read and re-written in the culture. Transferred to you through culture.
Thank you for recognising that the book that stops you from committing atrocities could have been subject to revision in the past and can be in the future.
I repeat, I don't need any book, or indeed any kind of external authority, to make be a decent human being. Why do you think you do?
Good deeds come first; then belief that sharpens them and make them stronger.
There is this verse from the Quran:
Quote:Sura 90, The Quran:
( 11 ) But he has not broken through the difficult pass.
( 12 ) And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?
( 13 ) It is the freeing of a slave
( 14 ) Or feeding on a day of severe hunger
( 15 ) An orphan of near relationship
( 16 ) Or a needy person in misery
( 17 ) And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion.
The verses gave a formula for believing: first you free slaves and give the poor; and after that you believe.
In other words; those acts will make belief more...tolerable?
So you have a point.
https://atheistforums.org/thread-51114-p...pid1624773
Quote:AtlasS33 said:
All I can say, is that being nice, being good, having a heart in general opens the road to belief
Good comes first. Believe sharpens the goodness; decorating it more and more.
