RE: Why be good?
May 27, 2015 at 2:16 pm
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2015 at 2:17 pm by Jenny A.)
(May 27, 2015 at 2:10 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: My point is, if you consider lying for instance, to be immoral, then there is not one person who moral, whether christian or atheist. The difference is, one realizes this...
There are degrees. No one is perfectly moral, but a person who lies occasionally (particularly social lies rather than lies to cheat or defraud) and a person who murders are miles apart. And most people consider inflicting disproportionate punishment or condemnation for moral infractions to be immoral.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.