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To: AreaMan
Can people be good without God?

Yes. Being an atheist or agnostic doesn't mean someone is an evildoer out to get everyone.

4 posted on 11/03/2009 10:00:21 AM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
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To: SolidWood

No there is not— not if you believes what the Bible says.
If you don’t believe the Bible, than the answer would be yes.

I believe, therefore, my answer is no.


6 posted on 11/03/2009 10:02:43 AM PST by kailbo
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To: SolidWood
Yes. Being an atheist or agnostic doesn't mean someone is an evildoer out to get everyone.

Perhaps ... but without God, "good" is no longer an objective thing; it requires human definition and is therefore a malleable thing. Morality becomes relative.

7 posted on 11/03/2009 10:04:04 AM PST by r9etb
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To: SolidWood
Yes. Being an atheist or agnostic doesn't mean someone is an evildoer out to get everyone.

The author never wrote that.

9 posted on 11/03/2009 10:06:17 AM PST by AreaMan
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To: SolidWood
“Being an atheist or agnostic doesn't mean someone is an evildoer out to get everyone.”

Certainly not intentionally. However, an atheist consciously rejects the very source of goodness and morality. Like cut flowers that soon wither and die without roots, atheists also have no roots for any morals they may hold, and they vanish under stress.

11 posted on 11/03/2009 10:10:18 AM PST by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY ( The Constitution needs No interpreting, only APPLICATION!)
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To: SolidWood
“Yes. Being an atheist or agnostic doesn't mean someone is an evildoer out to get everyone.”

Perhaps incidentally, but the moment they substitute their own judgement in the matter of good and bad for God's and or act upon it they become ‘evil doer's’ by literal definition. (Your “out to get everyone” stipulation has nothing to do with anything).

36 posted on 11/03/2009 10:51:33 AM PST by TalBlack
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