+220 Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right. amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

the two have nothing to do with each other

by Anonymous 12 years ago

How are they unrelated?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

maybe i should have elaborated, the post makes it seem like the two are opposites, like they can't exist at the same time within one person. You can believe in god, but at the same time think about every major decision u make and include religion if it's that kind of decision without blindly following it

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I couldn't help but notice the only thing you say in your comments is, "those have nothing to do with each other."

by Anonymous 12 years ago

who r u?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

An anonymous observer.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

hmm...i think you have an account, but your too much of a coward

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Call me what you will, I just thought I would point that out.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

the last time i said that isn't even in the first two pages of my comments, so you must have been following me for a while

by Anonymous 12 years ago

He/she couldn't comment without one.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

r u amirite stalking me or something?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, you just seem to say "the two are nothing alike" every time you comment.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'd change "Religion" to "Organised religion" in this post.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You could also add that religion is believing what you're told regardless of what makes sense.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But you could argue that many of our morals come from what we are told. Our society or culture--or even religion--often dictate our sense of right and wrong.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Morality is doing what YOU FEEL is right or wrong. Morality is subjective. As for the second part, you can substitute religion for law, or really any set of established ethical rules.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I agree. Religion is doing what is right according to your religion regardless of what you are told, whereas morality is doing what is right according to yourself regardless of what you are told.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's funny because it proves how biased amirite is.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

How so? The amirite staff doesn't choose which posts are homepaged...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I never said the staff. By "amirite", I meant the amirite community. And their bias is showed by how positive the post is, even though it IS wrong.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well that is your opinion. The majority of the amirite community clearly has a different one. I presume you are biased because you are a Christian, just as I am biased because I'm an atheist. No one will ever be unbiased with a religious post.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Which is why I avoid posting them and wish other people could do the same. But making fun of Christians for deeply-held beliefs is just too fun, it seems.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What do you mean, "why I avoid them?" You clearly haven't avoided this post. You have both rated it negative and posted comments claiming that the post is wrong.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

*Avoid posting them. Sorry.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Fair enough. But to be honest, you can't complain when atheists bitch about the Christian values because Christians bitch about the atheist values quite often.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not on amirite. That, or I just haven't noticed it. But, you do make a fair point.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You're right, you don't notice it that much on this site. But if you go to Yahoo! Answers' religion section, it is just a nonstop battle of trolling between atheists claiming Christians are idiots and Christians who claim atheists are going to hell. It's actually quite funny.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm beginning to think that the best thing to do is to not say anything.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The score is now about 293 to 127. I don't think its terribly biased. It somewhat evenly split.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"Now" being the key word. It was somewhere around 4x as many YYA's when I made that comment.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I see. I take my comment back.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You can't compare the two like this! Either way, don't mock people's beliefs just to start a flame war. It's how you piss people off.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, if God exists then He's the one who can know what's right and wrong in all situations, it would be stupid to think you know better yourself. And ironically, if I were to start living by this post it would be because you told me to. So according to this post I should continue living by faith, no matter what I'm told, if I feel that it's right.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You said "if God exists". Which means everything that comes after that is meaningless.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Why?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Because God doesn't exist.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think Romans 1:20 would be an appropriate response to this: "For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse."

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I hate when people make ignorant statements like this. Unless you are omnipotent and know everything about everything in the entire universe and beyond, you CANNOT say without a shadow of a doubt and with any level of legitimacy that God does not exist. It doesn't make logical sense to do so.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Agreed. Just as you cannot say without doubt that God does exist. Yet people on both sides are so convinced that they, and only they, have been given special access to the ultimate truth.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hang on, sorry, I'm just curious as to the first part of your argument. "Well, if God exists then He's the one who can know what's right and wrong in all situations, it would be stupid to think you know better yourself." So, what if God did exist and we knew, without any uncertainty, that he viewed homosexuality as wrong? I, for one, would not change my support of gay rights, no matter what He viewed as right or wrong.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That would be very unfair to homosexuals, if what they were doing was wrong and they only got support in the wrong direction. Don't you think that God would have another, better plan for their lives? :(

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Many Christians today believe that in God's eyes, homosexuality is a sin.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I know, I think you need to read my previous reply again becaause I'm one of them ...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not sure I understand your reply. But I don't see homosexuality as wrong, so it seems we'll be at odds in opinion anyway cx

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was saying that if we know for sure that homosexuality is wrong, then it would be very unfair to support them in the wrong direction. If you really loved homosexuals you would want to help them get out of what's bad and into what's right.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Thank God. I wish there were more people like you in my school...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

God does not have a "viewpoint" his words is law. The correct phrase would be deemed homosexuality as wrong (which he has) making you wrong if you disagreed with this.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I do disagree with that. And I don't count myself as wrong. Sorry bud.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And you are entitled to your opinion, but I'm saying that just because our opinion on a matter is different than God's doesn't make it right. You have every right to it though.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Morality is doing what you feel society thinks is right. Religion is doing what you feel God thinks is right. (God meaning any higher power people worship)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No. Morality is doing what you feel society thinks is right. Religion is doing what you feel the writers of the Bible thinks is right. They both correspond to doing what is right based on the views of men, but society is a larger group of men living in modern times.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Except the Bible was written by men commanded by God...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Except the Bible was written by men commanded by God...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Lol sure it was.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So was the Torah. So was Koran. So was my essay I wrote for English class. Not everything everybody says is true.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But everything God says is true...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

God didn't say that. The writers of the Bible claimed that God said that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Your logic is pretry bad. I'm sorry. But if the bible is true, then God wrote it. If not, then don't bother.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's funny because you're assuming that all people who believe in God also believe in the Bible and/or are Christians.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No no, dumbass. Blindly adopting any belief and living by it is doing what you are told regardless of what is right, so why don't you do humanity a favor and read more about religions that people follow and the basis that they stand upon before blabbering bullshit like that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Obviously people who think this "God" is all about doing the right thing, hasn't read the Bible. You can find plenty of places where it clearly promotes rape, violence towards woman, and murder.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not sure what Bible you're reading but this is false Show me examples or something

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The Bible was written by MEN who put things in the Bible that were according to the ways of the past.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And as we all know, men are evil and therefore what they say cannot be true and must think of women as objects.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Men have though of women as object's until recent history.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sure, ALL of them. Oh, well then I guess Esther was just filler, huh?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I never said all; I implied that most did. Which they have.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And that automatically means women in the Bible were treated as complete objects? What about Sarah, Mary, Martha, Mary Magdalene, Esther, Ruth, Rahab, Miriam, Naomi,- and these are just some of the GOOD women. There were other women who were bad, but they were certainly not seen as objects. Just look at Jezebel.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I never said they were? I'm just answering why the Bible says it's okay to beat women?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

When does it say that? Show me an exact quote that says it's always or usually okay to beat a woman.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Dear God women I am not against you! I don't know if it says it, I'm trying to justify why it's in the Bible if it does actually say it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Why would you defend something that you don't actually believe to be true?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not defending it, I'm not sure if it's in the Bible or not because I only have a copy of it in Serbian Cryllic in my house and that's very difficult to read so I don't comprehend all of it. I'm telling the person who said that was in the Bible, why it would be in the Bible if it were actually in it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's usually what people say when they're talking about how the Bible was lies. "Oh, the bible was just a book written thousands of years ago by sexist, controlling, angry, men stuck in their ways who wanted women to obey them completely". Lines that that are normally used to show that the Bible was a biased, sexist, hate-filled relic of the past and therefore outdated and wrong.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah I agree, that's why I'm trying to justify why it says that, if it does say that. Because I want people to change their minds and be Christians, or at least not hate us :)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

On a side note, is your names pronounced Tay-uh, or Tee?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Neither, it's teh-yuh but not so yuh, just smooth. Lmao Serbian and it's difficulty. so more like teh-yah

by Anonymous 12 years ago

ah.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And obviously, dumbass, you have some serious issues understanding the Bible and some even more serious issues respecting others and their beliefs and you're underestimating the importance of proper grammar ( "people" is a plural noun, "hasn't" is used with singular nouns. "Woman" is also a singular noun, "women" would be more accurate to use in your aforementioned sentence about violence). The Bible does not promote rape or violence towards women or murder, and if you read the Bible, you'd know that, unless of course you have extra issues with understanding the context of texts, then that's a different case. I don't mean to be a total bitch and insult you in any way, but you have no right to insult anybody's beliefs. It's fine if you don't believe in God and find that religions don't work for you, but don't go around making up bullshit about things you don't understand well enough to speak about, cause honestly, it just makes you sound stupid. Again, read more about religions, understand what you read, and then you can start arguing what religion is, otherwise, don't bring up the subject and insult the rest of us who believe in God.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The Bible does not promote rape, violence toward women, or murder. Much of the Bible is historic accounts of things that took place, and you are clearly taking those instances out of context.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The post did not mention anything about the Bible. There are literally millions of religious books out there and its absolutely ridiculous to hate on religion because you think one religious book (the Bible) is stupid.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Religion teaches you to have good morals... Some people look at religion as just a set of rules, but most just incourage kindness to others etc.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Murder: Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT, Leviticus 20:13 NAB, Proverbs 20:20 NAB, Exodus 22:19 NAB Rape: Judges 21:10-24 NLT, Deuteronomy 20:10-14, Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT, Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB, Exodus 21:7-11 NLT

by Anonymous 12 years ago

YES! Because ALL religious people can't and don't think for themselves! Because we ALWAYS do what the Bible says regardless of whether it's wrong or right. Because if you're religious, you can' be good.( But of course, it would be offensive, wrong and hypocritical to say the same thing about atheists.) Because we have no personal sense of morality- we lost it once we started believing in God! Now we're just mindless, heartless people who blindly follow without thinking or caring at all! Because the Bible doesn't say ANYTHING about the importance of loving, giving to, and helping absolutely everyone or being just and truthful, so it can't support anything good! But what do I know? Me Christian me dumb!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sounds about right.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ah! the dumb asses just keep piling up on this page!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They sure are.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Did you really have to like your own comment?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes, I did indeed. Have a problem with that?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Just to clarify, I am an atheist. Obviously. And actually I do know some really great religious people, so I think I worded this wrong by trying to put all religious people into one category.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Now you're being sensible! Here's the thing: I can almost say it's a fact that you'll run into complete religious ass holes that only use their brains to fill up their skulls, but not every religious person is like that. It has less to do with a person being religious and more to do with them being retarded, so next time don't be so fast to judge. Thank you for correcting your mistake, I personally appreciate it greatly! not a lot of people are willing to admit that they might have said something incorrect.

by Anonymous 12 years ago