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1- What is your religion?
2- To what level do you take your religion
3- What is the cause of your doing "good deeds"? Do you only do "good deeds" due to your religion?
4- What is the cause of any "bad deeds" you have done? To what level does religion play into any "bad deeds" you have done?
3- What is the cause of your doing "good deeds"? Do you only do "good deeds" due to your religion?
If yes; Does this mean that the only reason you do "good deeds" is due to your religion? If no; Does this mean that you do "good deeds" because you yourself want to do good?
1- What is your religion?
2- To what level do you take your religion; By this, I mean, for instance, if your Christain, what is your interpretative regarding the bible i.e. literally (young-earth creationist), or if your Muslim / Islamic, do you pray five times a day no matter what or "kind of"? etc.
3- What is the cause of your doing "good deeds"? Do you only do "good deeds" due to your religion?
If yes; Does this mean that the only reason you do "good deeds" is due to your religion?
If no; Does this mean that you do "good deeds" because you yourself want to do good?
Obviously, this thread, and whose who answer, need to be honest. I WANT THIS THREAD CIVIL.
If you answer that the only reason you do good deeds is because your Bible or religious book tells you to do so, than I wont criticize you and I hope nobody does either.
4- What is the cause of any "bad deeds" you have done? To what level does religion play into any "bad deeds" you have done?
5- This is open ended question. Please talk about what you think "good deeds" are, what you think "bad deeds" are, and the reasoning behind so. Your welcome to talk about how your religion ties in.
Originally posted by BrokenCircles
reply to post by Confusion42
It is the entire idea that is ridiculous. You shouldn't need a reason to do a good deed, just like I don't need a reason to respond.
Originally posted by Confusion42
I am sorry you find this post "ridiculous/" May I ask why you responded if you clearly don't like my original post?
As far I'm concerned, if you need some sort of an outside reason, then the action was done for an additional personal gain, and was not actually a good deed after all.
Originally posted by sk0rpi0n
reply to post by Confusion42
3- What is the cause of your doing "good deeds"? Do you only do "good deeds" due to your religion?
People do good/bad deeds even outside a religious context.
If yes; Does this mean that the only reason you do "good deeds" is due to your religion? If no; Does this mean that you do "good deeds" because you yourself want to do good?
When a non-religious person (or an atheist) does a good deed, is it always because of his need to prove to the world that even non-religious people perform good deeds?
edit on 22-5-2012 by sk0rpi0n because: (no reason given)
There is no one righteous, not even one;
11 there is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one.”
13 “Their throats are open graves;
their tongues practice deceit.”
“The poison of vipers is on their lips.”
14 “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 ruin and misery mark their ways,
17 and the way of peace they do not know.”
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. 20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
Originally posted by AQuestion
reply to post by Confusion42
Dear Confusion,
I read your question and answered it in my original post. I asked you how you would answer the questions to which you seem to have taken offense. The rules of ATS are that we are to stay on topic and not be offensive. I was on topic and follow the rules of ATS, unless you are a moderator, that is all you can ask.
1- What is your religion?
To what level do you take your religion;
3- What is the cause of your doing "good deeds"?
If no; Does this mean that you do "good deeds" because you yourself want to do good?
4- What is the cause of any "bad deeds" you have done? To what level does religion play into any "bad deeds" you have done?
Some religious people ONLY do good deeds, one way or another, in order to benefit themselves, via religion.
Originally posted by Confusion42
reply to post by EnochWasRight
Please do not ruin my thread by posting text found in the highly edited collection of books (called the bible), who was authored by 40+ unknown people, edited by people who sought to enslave others.
Your response is the worst (more or less) possible.
While I keep emphasizing about keeping this thread civil, get your garbage "your going to hell (and / or worse) unless you belief what I say" garbage out of my thread.
This thread is for people that are able to think for themselves; Not for the brainwashed and brainwashes.
Your dirty garbage (calling me worthless) and saying I don't do good, (saying ALL / EVERYBODY) does no good, just because of a fiction book, is not wanted in this thread. IT IS NOT WANTED IN THIS WORLD. Sicko.