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Originally Posted by Truth-Defender";p="
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Originally Posted by Force-of-the-Truth";p="
First of all, we all invent our own morals to the extent that we choose what to believe. One could believe every letter of the Bible, but one would have chosen that as a belief system and so made ones own moral code.
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No need for spiritual influence here, huh FOT? If we can successfully make our "own moral code," why bother with the Bible? Why bother pretending to worship anything other than ourselves? I think you said you are a Christian. Why? |
First, I specifically typed that I "have little doubt that there is some correlation between being moral and being religious". Second, I wrote that every person, through free will, accepts and rejects moral beliefs and so makes their own morality. That in no way contradicts the belief that, if ones ethical conclusions are correct, the power to have the correct ideas comes from God. Third, I am a Christian based on experience. I have found that worshipping and praying to the Christian God makes me a better person. My conscience does define what "better" is, but my conscience also does not permit me to "worship myself" (and it never did even in my secular days).