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Originally Posted by TheShadowMan
then in the end when you have your own children you start the cycle over again. I feel religion is a good way to help you teach morality to your children.
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I don't take lessons on morality from people who don't take lessons on morality from themselves.
In the United States, half the country firmly, sometimes fanatically believes that Jesus would want you to put criminals to death. They have even changed the nature of the third commandment, claiming it doesn't REALLY say thou shalt not Kill, but rather thou shalt not murder. So state executions are fine.
(These people tend to get all cross when you suggest that Jesus might not like state executions, considering he was executed by the state)
The other half the country (less than half actually) believes that the third commandment means you cannot put prisoners to death, because killing is wrong.
So if Christianity cannot even get their sh*t together on determining if its acceptable or not to take a human life, which morality exactly are they supposed to 'help' teach children?
Jesus had some wonderful messages, and some truly amazing lessons. 'Judge not lest ye be judged' was a good one. If people could focus more on that one, and less on Homosexuality being an abomination, things would be so much nicer.
In the end, religion is like astrology or horoscopes. The teachings are so extensive, vague and contradictory, you can find a lesson somewhere to match your pre-existing point of view. That’s why Christianity has been responsible for some of the greatest good of the world and some of the greatest evil, for furthering knowledge and for extinguishing the pursuit of knowledge, for promoting peace and for demanding bloodshed and massacre.
The faith that gave us mother Theresa also gave us round bullets for Christians and square bullets for Muslims.
There IS no religious morality, all there is is basic human morality, good or evil, that is couched in religious terms and framed with religious articles to give it a sense of divine legitimacy. The same 'God that told Traveller not to special ops a Planetarion planet is the one that told James Warren Jones to make 'special' Kool-aid, and to force feed it to the children. God isn't a voice that speaks to you, God is a self-rationalisation for allowing yourself to follow your own inner desires, be it good or evil.
You don't NEED to justify or explain your actions if 'GOD' told you to do it...