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To: Protagoras
If there is no God and therefore no reward or punishment because there is no afterlife, how can there be such a thing as right and wrong?

Don't you ever do (or not do) something, just because it "feels wrong", or because it's just innately abhorrent to you? Don't you ever do something nice for someone without thinking about in the context of your faith or what you might get out of it? (Either spiritually or materially or even egotistically?)

Some things are just so obviously right or wrong that you don't need religion to know it, imo.

99 posted on 01/26/2005 10:52:33 AM PST by exnavychick (There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
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To: exnavychick
Don't you ever do (or not do) something, just because it "feels wrong", or because it's just innately abhorrent to you?

Often. In fact, usually. I attribute it to the holy spirit.

Don't you ever do something nice for someone without thinking about in the context of your faith or what you might get out of it?

I always try to do the right thing, I pray I would do it more often. I fall short.

What do you do?

Some things are just so obviously right or wrong that you don't need religion to know it, imo.

I never claimed you had to be religious to do right or wrong. Only that it makes no rational sense if there is no God. If I'm wrong, i'd like to hear an explanation as to why. So far, I get questions about myself, not answers from those who claim its possible.

133 posted on 01/26/2005 11:06:59 AM PST by Protagoras (No one is fit to be a master and no one deserves to be a slave. GWB 1-20-05)
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