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Originally Posted by Mikeyy
Oh I believe in free will. I just don't believe someone gave that to me. I can tell you that if you believe in God or not you can still feel guilty when you do wrong by someone else. Its not some future consequences that effects me. Its my own sense of right and wrong.
Somethings are ingrained in our DNA. For example. Why does a dog know automatically that a snake is dangerous? I hope I didn't just open a can of worms there. But you get my point.
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Not at all...
But I've never said that people do things SOLELY on whether or not they may get judged in an afterlife...For those that do it's ONE other thing to consider tha people who don't believe in an afterlife or being judged in one has to deal with...
The sense of right and wrong can also come (and mostly does) from an individual's upbrining...The "being judged afterward" can be the difference bewtween someone wanting to do something with 49% willingness and 51% willingness...
You telling me that your willingness of doing something is already at 95% because of the difference between right and wrong only tells me about YOU...not everyone...
And you know as well as I do that there could be millions of people in the percentile I've given...
Which is the difference bewtween millions of things being done in what people considers right and what people consider wrong...
And ESPECIALLY when people KNOW that what they're doing is wrong but do it anyway...
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Originally Posted by Mikeyy
The only guilt trip I get now is from religious people that tell me I'm in trouble. I can live with it though.
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Which was never me...so don't bring it up...
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Originally Posted by Mikeyy
Some of the people I respect the most throughout history are and were God fearing. I have the same respect for them regardless of their religious beliefs. What would be great is if they could do the same. But it doesn't work that way I know. Christians are supposed to spread the word.
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I'm a Christian...when have you seen me "spead the word"?...
I guess you'll judge me a "bad Christian" now because I'm not doing what I'm "supposed" to do...
I notice the harsh hypocrisy of your last two comments...
First, you have an issue of "religious people" judging you...(by way of your "guilt trip" comment)...
And then...in the VERY NEXT PARAPGRAPH...You judged those same people in their religious obligations...(supposing to "spread the word)...
It would be much easier to write
"I don't like people who call others a-holes...I think they're a-holes."...