RE: Hell
October 10, 2009 at 5:46 am
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2009 at 5:48 am by Ace Otana.)
Quote:In the Christian belief - God requires people like you to realize how far they are from being good (conceptually). The people who realize they are selfish repent. The self-righteous do not.I don't believe I'm selfish. I don't believe in good and evil for they are concepts. Being socially minded is caring for others. I am not in the christian belief, I'm an atheist and I see moral and decency as natural social behaviour from social animals like us. From my point of view, god had nothing to do with our social behaviour.
Quote:"Being socially minded is natural" - but ultimately unnecessary (right?).No, it is extremely necessary for being socially minded. If we never worked together or helped each other we'd have no society. Some large reasons for being social is to better our survival. Animals like elephants and many other social animals stay together. It is very difficult to take on an elephant young and old if your in numbers. Which is why they are hard wired to be social and stand together like we do.
Quote:Which means there is plenty of room for individual mindedness.Individual thoughts is something most animals have. We have the ability to question and have some understanding about our enviroment. We can make up gods to fill in missing gaps of infomation for which we have done for many thousands of years. Being able to think and question is an amazing ability but no matter what our individual thoughts, we are far from immune from making errors. Religions can be as wrong as the belief that the world is flat.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
