If my writing is not very clear on this issue, It's most certainly my fault....as I'm pretty much just thinking out loud here. Haven't really concretely formed my thoughts in this area. We are obviously being pretty liberal with our generalizations as well.
As to your specific question......and I'm just throwing out ideas here.....many religious people use their religion as a guide for morality. Yes, they have an innate sense of right and wrong...but while murder is illegal based on the law, it is IMMORAL based on their religious beliefs. This doesn't really become an issue until the law and their morality conflict. When the law says something is legal, but a person draws on their religious teachings to conclude that the action is immoral.....they may question how someone with NO religious affiliation might come to a conclusion on the action...? Do they simply assume that everything which is legal, must be moral? If not, what do they draw from? It's not quite as easy to explain it as an "innate sense of right and wrong" when you get into grayer areas. Homosexuality might be one of those areas. Another might be alcohol. Many devout Muslims, for instance, will avoid alcohol for religious reasons. Our law says alcohol is legal...but we know it can be physically destructive to our bodies. How can we have an innate sense that drinking alcohol is right....or is wrong.....??? I don't rightly know.... On 11/6/07, Ben Doom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I understand that religion can become very important to people. But it > scares me that they need religion to maintain morality. I mean, that > implies that the reason these people think that non-religious people are > immoral is because the religious people wouldn't be moral if God didn't > tell them it's important. Maybe that's not what you meant to say, but > that's certainly the implication I read. Do these people not have an > innate sense of what is right, what is wrong, and what is a grey area? > > Rereading what I've written, I'm sure that's not what you meant to say. > So, I guess I'm asking, what do you mean when you say that it > (religion) has "almost become essential for them to establish and > maintain their moral integrity"? > > --BenD > > -- And all this could be Just a dream so it seems I was never much good at goodbye ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245938 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
