I do good things because it makes me feel good, and because it means that it's more likely that other people will be nice to me.
I don't have any deep rooted prejudice against religion, I don't know what I could have said to explain why you'd even think that. The primary reason I disagree with doing good because religion tells one to is because of the nature of the authority figure means that anything, right or wrong, can be considered "good" should that figure say so. Persecuting gays, for instance, or regarding women as socially inferior. Or, and this one seems particularly mean; condemning other christians as heretics when they interpret the big book of of multiple choice, otherwise the "bible", in a different way.
I don't have any deep rooted prejudice against religion, I don't know what I could have said to explain why you'd even think that. The primary reason I disagree with doing good because religion tells one to is because of the nature of the authority figure means that anything, right or wrong, can be considered "good" should that figure say so. Persecuting gays, for instance, or regarding women as socially inferior. Or, and this one seems particularly mean; condemning other christians as heretics when they interpret the big book of of multiple choice, otherwise the "bible", in a different way.
If you believe it, question it. If you question it, get an answer. If you have an answer, does that answer satisfy reality? Does it satisfy you? Probably not. For no one else will agree with you, not really.
