He fought against atheism, and thought it to be mental illness, that you could
not be a moral person if you did not have faith.
It should naturally grow out of the relationship we have with God, but we do not have to
be a moral person in order to approach God through Jesus.
The survey also asked similar questions to members of non-Christian faiths and religiously unaffiliated Americans, asking whether various behaviors are essential to «
what being a moral person means to you.»
It must further be stipulated that
there are moral people — at least in terms of the virtues appropriate to the temporal realm — who do not draw their morality from sources ostensibly religious in nature.
A better strategy would be to point out how one doesn't need religion to
be a moral person, and then demonstrate how some of the people that claim to be a beacon for religious zealots (the GOP) practice an existence devoid of morality.
I don't even have to prove that
I'm a moral person.
They've just evaluated the evidence, inserted it into their logic paradigm and came to the only rational conclusion that there is: I do not need to believe in the supernatural to
be a moral person.
So, the question is simple: How can
you be a moral person who (as you have admitted) follow an immoral god?
There is no requirement to
be a moral person.
We are all moral people no matter our choices we make!
That assumes that just because someone claims they are a man of God that
they are a moral person.
Religious people make their first mistake when they get into the mindset that one MUST be religious or believe in some version of god in order to
be a moral person.
I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to
be a moral person, I must believe in «A,» «B,» «C» and «D.» Just who do they think they are?
And then comes the gut - punch line: «If
you're a moral person, then you'll choose heterosexuality in order to be with God.»
How can schools inspire and teach students to
be moral people — to care about and take responsibility for others, to think clearly about and pursue justice, to sacrifice for important principles?
He doesn't seem to be a politically driven person but
he was a moral person... or at least tried to be.
I am a moral person with a belief that people should do the right thing in their personal life and with piers.