(July 14, 2014 at 8:57 pm)ignoramus Wrote: It could be any so called "sacred texts", not just the bible.
Mother Teresa is not a good person. She only does what she does so she can be guaranteed front row seats in heaven. Everyone has ulterior motives.
How many people would subscribe to the bible if there was nothing in it for them.
If the bible said be good to your neighbour for the sake of being good, not because you will benefit in an afterlife. The irony is that most Christians, like all humans, are born with a moral compass and are good people anyway. But they've been indoctrinated for so long that they believe everybody needs to be good for a reason.
Maybe they are xenophobic towards atheists because we are normal good people without having made a binding contract with god. They must think we're fools for not acting evil! They don't see the sense in it because we're not going to heaven anyway because we haven't made a contract.
What is your definition of a "good" person. Is it a person who always does good or a person who does good most of the time? What is the dividing line between a good and a bad person? Is a good person one who does fifty or more good things a year and a bad person one who does less than fifty good things a year? Maybe it's more a question of how good or how bad the things they do are. Who judges how good or how bad someone is?
