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Do religions teach right from wrong?


No! I am A godless heretic
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Yes! But only the bible one
  11% (1)
Yes! But only the all idolaters must convert or be smote one
  0% (0)
Some do, some do not
  11% (1)
None of them do
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They all do
  11% (1)
I worship the Shoe god(dess)
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Money/wealth is the only true god
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Something else
  33% (3)


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Do religions teach right from wrong? - 1/18/2017 7:19:17 AM   
WickedsDesire


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Status: offline 		Once, a long time ago I pondered weak and weary-guffaws, unto my raving lunacy ,do religions teach right from wrong? Something I could never quite answer. I am still not sure to this day although it’s been a number of years since I thought about it.
Does is plant a moral code within us all – even me to this very day, even remnants, or the best/worst bits.

I gave up Catholicism myself at 14 – free will or all em spaceship references. But when we were young we were effectively made to go to mass…this cannot be a good thing. Personally I think most huwmans are born into their religion - again not a good thing. I actually perceive it as brainwashing, conditioning, cult-like etc


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RE: Do religions teach right from wrong? - 1/18/2017 7:31:24 AM   
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1 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
6 “You shall not murder.
7 “You shall not commit adultery.
8 “You shall not steal.
9 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10 “You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.”

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RE: Do religions teach right from wrong? - 1/18/2017 7:41:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		While RO speaks of the christian ethos, other religions have different ideas of what is right and what is wrong.
For instance, there are things in the Islamic faith that are diametrically opposed to christian beliefs.

And therein lies the problem.


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RE: Do religions teach right from wrong? - 1/18/2017 7:45:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yeah, religions teach their own special brand of right and wrong.

Course you can get the skinny on right and wrong real early in life, from parents and family and school without all the fucking baggage and horseshit.

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RE: Do religions teach right from wrong? - 1/18/2017 8:03:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have never been able to find out the original-raw verbatim 10 commandments - anyone - if you say yes r1 i will take you at your word but I dont think that is them?...does anyone know the patient zero text?

The Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue, are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship, which play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments

i did not forgot to add in - does religion teach us divide and murder and why lesser mortals are subhuman and should be annihilated?

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RE: Do religions teach right from wrong? - 1/18/2017 8:04:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		I do not believe that religions preach/teach right from wrong. What they teach, in my opinion is what suits them best. I do not profess to be an expert on any religion, but I was raised a Christian, a faith I left many years ago. But it is the one religion I know a little about.

I know that "god", who said he was a jealous god, (see above) said we mustn't be jealous (I believe coveting your neighbor's wife is jealousy) and so with many of the so-called commandments this god guy was a hypocrite. After all, to make a point, he supposedly fucked a married woman and (when the resultant son was born he didn't even use his omnipotence to arrange for a hotel room to be available in Bethlehem...) once the son was in his 30s he conspired to murder him. Nice guy this god. He probably broke all his own commandments.

Why would anyone worship him, he was/is an asshole, which probably means he has an account on this site which seems to attract a good proprortion of assholes!?

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RE: Do religions teach right from wrong? - 1/18/2017 8:06:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		In order to survive civilizations have developed a system of laws. Most of these laws have their roots in Religious teachings. Right or wrong are fluid terms that reflect the moors of constantly changing social sensibilities. These sensibilities change along with religious dominance...so yes Religion does teach right from wrong within the context of the dominate religion. Even in countries that claim no religion their laws are mostly based on past religious teachings... and this is because these teaching provide a stable system to govern a society.

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RE: Do religions teach right from wrong? - 1/18/2017 8:34:30 AM   
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Status: offline 		The-those laws actually existed before the god(s), well the ones us idiots of a human race twere taught

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atum
or was it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris

Arguments are made for older deities but they become lost in time from actually-relatively not that long ago. And, all religion is infact a warped concept/bastardization of this.

Do you know whats actually the scariest
1. these fuking loons killing in the name of their god(s). yes one, or a fragment of one, is currently worst than all the rest nowadays combined - save that second amendment
2. Gods - correct spelling - started it as mankind had become wicked - and there are 2000 plus common flood myth and most of them have that as common ground - overlooking the fact was all of human kind guilty - save a chosen couples- few.
3. the argument can be made if god(s) were indeed pissed off they would go with option number 2, not one as he/she has a history of this.


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RE: Do religions teach right from wrong? - 1/18/2017 8:36:21 AM   
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ORIGINAL: WickedsDesire
The Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue, are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship, which play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments

Here's a more interesting question: to what extent was Christ's teaching opposed to the ten commandments, and when there is conflict between Christ and the old testament, which is held to be definitive?

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RE: Do religions teach right from wrong? - 1/18/2017 8:45:05 AM   
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Status: online 		Depends on the religion. Islam teaches Muslims to slaughter as many non-Muslims as possible. Atheism and Islam seem to be in a contest to see which can slaughter the most:

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During the century measured, more people died as a result of communism (Atheists) than from homicide (58 million) and genocide (30 million) put together. The combined death tolls of WWI (37 million) and WWII (66 million) exceed communism's total by only 9 million

Most other religions of late, I think, though imperfect as man is imperfect, have done much good. Mother Theresa comes to mind, and the fact that most hospitals were started by religions also comes to mind.

There are so many religious charities, the Salvation Army, on and on



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RE: Do religions teach right from wrong? - 1/18/2017 8:57:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		You see you are deciding what is right and wrong... and when you see something you disagree with you condemn religion. There are many laws within various religions I disagree with...but within that society they do define right from wrong...Just not my right from wrong.

So which is the thrust of your thread... condemnation of religion... or its place in society and the laws that govern them? Or... what you personally think is right or wrong?

Butch

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RE: Do religions teach right from wrong? - 1/26/2017 7:27:34 AM   
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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

Yeah, religions teach their own special brand of right and wrong.

Course you can get the skinny on right and wrong real early in life, from parents and family and school without all the fucking baggage and horseshit.

Bingo. It's not right and wrong -- it's "my" "right" and "wrong."

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