Do God and religion increase moral actions?
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I can say first hand God has increased my morality. I used to be a Christian many years ago, I truly cared what I did and how I treated people, because Jesus set the standard and I followed his life as my example. A few years later I got involved with partying, drugs, alcohol and promiscuity. I still knew what was right and wrong, but I chose mostly the wrong thing against my conscience and against God's teaching. I became a very unhappy person and really felt broken, like there was a piece of my heart missing. I slowly started getting back involved with church, Bible study, and did away with all my sinful, fleshly desires. I started living again for Jesus and realized he was the key to my heart being complete, and nothing else would satisfy. I have been going strong for a good while now following Jesus's ways and I can say I am different in every area of my life, my moral compass is finally set again pointed towards heaven and I will never turn back to the old man that used to live inside me. Side: Yes
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Before I left my country I have never met religious person in my life. I have never nip anything or beaten anyone. I don't understand the concept of sin. Why should I worship some imaginary being and why that being cares who I have sex with? "...rib-women convicted by talking snake to eat from magical tree" How believing to that makes me any better? Side: No
To me this is a yes and no answer there have been some atrocious things commited by allegedly religous people and some great acts done by non religous people but a lot of church's do some great works for charity. In the end a belief in God and Religion does seem to cause some people to act in a more moral way but I think it is sad that people cant act in a moral way without religion, people should be able to tell right from wrong and be able to act morally without being told to by whatever their deity is. You should do whats right because you want to not because God told you to. Side: Yes
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The Crusades, pedophile priests, money laundering and oblitering the rights of people are not Christians; I don't care what they claim with their mouths. Those things are not what Jesus taught. Yes, God and religion increase moral actions. They have on my part. If not for my Christian faith and the desire to do God's will by supporting his laws of morality and ethics, my life would have been much different. Perhaps many people who are atheists and agnostics have a sense of right and wrong, of morality and ethics, since that is because human innate conscience is "accusing or excusing them." Deep down, people know what's right, and those who join the rabid war against the religious do so because they are trying to squelch that innate urging. Satan cannot stand it that people still live who want to support God's sovereignty. Selfish desire can overcome the innate sense of right and wrong, so that people often do not do what they know deep down is right. Side: No
So? Did you read the question? "Do God and religion increase moral actions?" The answer to that is no. No matter what idealistic notions you have of your beliefs, the truth is that it hurts people and society. Be a good person because you can, not because you are following the path of some divine bullshit. Side: Yes
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Not at all, I was a Christian for 30 years of my life although I do not regret it I am a bit angry that my whole entire life I have been lied to. The last five years or so one can say that I was born again but not as a Christian but as an atheist and to tell you the truth I have never been more happier in my entire life, seeing things from the outside now gives me a better perspective on how diluted I used to be, how I let personal emotions and fear dictate my everyday actions and how I treated other people.
As an atheist I am no longer in bondage, I am a free thinker, a logical person, and more compassionate now than I ever was, morality is not given to you by god or any religion it is given to you with rational thinking. In my opinion if one needs god or religion for morals then that individual really is not moral at all, if one needs to be blackmailed with eternal damnation or rewarded with paradise in order to do moral things that person needs to start questioning everything that they have ever been told about god and religion. Side: No
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No. Yeah, we may be scared of the consequences of our actions because there is a hell, karma, and stuff, but that doesn't change the fact that we are still the ones who make the decisions in our life... which is to do good or not. For example, in a school there are rules, but it is up to the student if you will do these rules or not. Side: No
Try to argue against the historical facts called the Crusades and The Inquisition. No, religious reasons do not increase moral behaviour. If anything religious reasons mainly end up as one of the many reasons to hate the opposition without even bothering to understand them (e.g., homophobia and anti-science). Moral behaviour is mainly a personal choice. Moral, compassionate, altruistic atheists can exist just like how bigoted hateful materialistic Fundamentalists exist. Side: No
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