On Nov 9, 2007 8:19 AM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not so sure that's true, at least not today. Even people that go > to church regularly, I would argue, don't refrain from, say, stealing, > because they're afraid of God or because the Bible says don't. I > would say that they don't steal due to an inner sense of the Golden > Rule. Peer pressure also plays a big role, as does the justice > system. >
Whether they act on their beliefs or not is a different matter. A majority of people on the planet claim some sort of spirituality...belief in a higher power. With this belief comes a kind of responsibility, if you will, to live for something higher (indeed, that is why people created God, in my opinion). Moral actions are intertwined with this devotion...a desire to live "right". Put another way, they do what is right simply because it's right....and to believers, I think at it's core, what is "right" flows from something they believe to be a higher power than themselves....even if they aren't thinking "I'm not going to steal this because the Bible tells me not to!" Just what I think.....and if it's true at all, it may explain the otherwise baffling poll results that continue to find Atheists as one of the most untrusted minorities. -- And all this could be Just a dream so it seems I was never much good at goodbye ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:246143 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
