A person can certainly be moral without being religious. But if you ARE religious, doesn’t that mean you accept and follow the belief systems of your religion?
I really don’t have a problem with how the Gates’ live their lives, but it sounds like she wants to be a Catholic and reject is fundamental beliefs at the same time.
someone should call her racist..ha..cause the 3rd world is exploding in population while the elites in Europe and America, the population is diminishing cause of contraception. Just another Margaret Sanger.
PS> Most third world country males will refuse to use condoms..so there goes the Aids rationale.
their morals are just based on nothing more than personal preference and fear of punishment, b/c they aren’t tied to any objective standard outside themselves. hardly anyone lives up to their own standards consistently. and over time personal standards will slip as indicted by the societal slide into decay.
moral relativism is why we’re at where we’re at now. it doesn’t work, it turns everything into chaos. under relativism the cannibal, pedophile, animal sex lover, thief, addict, thug, and bum don’t have to change, can say nobody else can judge them, and that they are good b/c they’re living up to their own moral codes.
“but it sounds like she wants to be a Catholic and reject is fundamental beliefs at the same time.”
A lot of liberals are like that, i.e., they want to be Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans, etc. but reject the fundamental distinctives of those belief systems at the same time. I overhead a co-worker of mine saying he’s going to RCIA instruction classes but flat out does not believe in Roman Catholic teaching. It’s like if you don’t believe in what a religion teaches, why join it?