A person can have a humanitarian mindset regardless of religion. You don't have to believe in God to be good , you can have a feeling of responsibility towards society and consider it your duty towards it and do what is good for you and the others. Patriots need not be religious , yet they feel a great responsibility towards their country. There are so many motives for a man to do good to others irrespective of religion. On the other hand people are known to indulge in vice and ask God's forgiveness later.
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Alan Wostenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Sure, "helping is primal". But the Jihadist, having a different > theology than the Christian, believes he is helping you by converting > you to Islam by the sword. Not so the Christian, for whom religion is > the "The voluntary subjection of oneself to God". > > The island of atheists? Sure, they'd "help others" for some definition > of "help" and "others". I know something about the Christian command > to love my neighbor but don't know the official atheist dogma on > helping others. If one acted like there were no God why would he > think he has any duty to help others? > > On Sep 12, 8:28 am, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > AW; > > Yes there is............. > > I'll refer you to rigsy's sept. 6 10:15 am post as to my "theistic > > religiosity" comment. > > > > Also, people use therapy and AA like a religion- in fact, they "use" a > > lot of things in lieu of religion. What about jingoism? <<<rigsy > > > > Do you think no one would help anyone else on an island of atheists > > because they didn't have a religion to tell them to do so? Helping > > is primal and innate as nurturing; religion and faith is human > > construct and not necessity. >
