Also I want to ad, the point of this post is not to debate if religious people are more moral and ethical then athiests and vice versa, that is NOT what I'm getting at. I'm asking, since traditionally religion has been used to teach and establish morals and "be good to your neighbor" "dont steal" "dont cheat", accountability whether caught or not, etc, how will or can those things be replaced with the decline of religion?
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Religion VS Atheism and the decline of ethics and morals
by EndofMysteries inbeing back in college after leaving the borg, one of the required classes for a degree at my college is ethics.
after learning a few things, i am curious where morality and ethics is heading for the future of humanity.
i wish i could find the source again, but several weeks ago i recalled reading a transcript of a very old document that talked about when christianity was being spread in europe, it brought civility and community.
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Religion VS Atheism and the decline of ethics and morals
by EndofMysteries inbeing back in college after leaving the borg, one of the required classes for a degree at my college is ethics.
after learning a few things, i am curious where morality and ethics is heading for the future of humanity.
i wish i could find the source again, but several weeks ago i recalled reading a transcript of a very old document that talked about when christianity was being spread in europe, it brought civility and community.
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Being back in college after leaving the borg, one of the required classes for a degree at my college is ethics.
After learning a few things, I am curious where morality and ethics is heading for the future of humanity.
I wish I could find the source again, but several weeks ago I recalled reading a transcript of a very old document that talked about when christianity was being spread in Europe, it brought civility and community.
In the ethics class, we saw a video showing studies and changes from the 1950's to present day. Even though there were many prejudices and problems back then, there has definitely been a shift from humility and community to selfishness and disregard of manners, ethics, etc.
2 correlations are a major decline in religion and kids not being raised by parents because of both of them working.
For thousands of years, religion is what taught people what is right and wrong (whether all of it was correct or not), and instilled in people even if they don't get caught, someone else is still watching.
Even though the decline of religion may have a positive of everybody is more tolerant of each other (no judging), is humanity going back into a barbaric phase where everyone is for only themself, if they don't get caught they'll do whatever they can get away with, etc?
How are children to be taught what is right and wrong? They have a short life, why not lie, steal, and cheat and do all they can to get as much as they can as long as they can get away with it since there is no consequence if they don't get caught? Why is it wrong? Isn't it just survival of the fittest?
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Comic book's new Arch Villain: The Apostate
by rebel8 ini was just imagining what a super villain would be if it was a compilation of us, all the wt's tall tales about apostates, and the evil characters in the bible.. favorite food: sod pottage.
goal: infect all jws with demons.
secret weapon: possessed tupperware.
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Eats doritos and soda at district conventions while undercover.
Has over 200 people at weddings.
Their children play sports at school.
Their children wear 1 strap of their backpack vs both.
They are okay playing pac-man.
Saturday morning cartoons: Smurfs
Drives 2 door car, red
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6 more weeks of winter
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Jealous Murderous OT Yahweh Jehovah really is Satan?
by Shanagirl ini would love to start a discussion (not a debate) with others that follow the gnostic writings from the nag hammadi library.
i am a believer that pretty much every belief has some truths and fallacies.
some say its a game of 'only taking what you like out of something'.....i say, its using discernment to find the 'pure nature' of what god would be and is.
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Man kills 2 people, mental issues from being kicked out of home for leaving JW's.
by EndofMysteries inhttp://www.ocregister.com/articles/thomas-599418-car-lexus.html.
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thomas had emotional childhood experiences, including being kicked out of his home when he was a high school senior because he told his mother he didn't want to be a jehovah's witness, istratescu said.. istratescu said it is hard to fathom why a one-time religious, helpful and hardworking father of two, the kind of guy who would give the shirt off his back, would kill.. because the pain inside him is too much to bear, she told jurors.. ".
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http://www.ocregister.com/articles/thomas-599418-car-lexus.html
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Thomas had emotional childhood experiences, including being kicked out of his home when he was a high school senior because he told his mother he didn't want to be a Jehovah's Witness, Istratescu said.
Istratescu said it is hard to fathom why a one-time religious, helpful and hardworking father of two, “the kind of guy who would give the shirt off his back,” would kill.
“Because the pain inside him is too much to bear,” she told jurors.
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Did they change the shunning article on the JW.ORG Website?
by bluesaph init no longer says, "those who simply leave the congregation are not shunned.".
trying to make us look like liars or what!.
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It's easy to expose the lie and spin doctoring on this one.
The question is, "FORMER MEMBER of the religion". They then go right into speaking about 'inactive ones'. Ask any JW or elder is an inactive one a former member or is an inactive one, "no longer one of jehovah's witnesses". The answer will be no. The ONLY way to be a 'former member' is by disfellowshipping or dissassociation, and either of those 2 ARE shunned.
So it's very easy to expose the deception on that one since the question is FORMER MEMBER of the religion.
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The Bible's Buried Secrets, new findings on how the ancient Israelites became supposedly monotheistic
by Finkelstein ini viewed this tv series recently and found the information interesting to say the least.. here is part 2 which got my attention the most.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyd0lzmile8.
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here is a hebrew interlinear of Ps 89:6. http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/OTpdf/psa89.pdf
Many many scriptures point to more to YHWH then meets the eye. How can he 'inherit' Israel?
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Time to Scan 1950 to 2000 "Original" WT publications
by EndofMysteries insince the wt library is 2000+ and since they are no longer doing the cd wt cd which had articles from 1950 to 2008, in the future quotes from those dates may be said to be apostate lies.
those who are into preserving the original stuff may want to start scanning those materials, if it hasn't already been done.
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Since the WT library is 2000+ and since they are no longer doing the CD WT CD which had articles from 1950 to 2008, in the future quotes from those dates may be said to be apostate lies. Those who are into preserving the original stuff may want to start scanning those materials, if it hasn't already been done.
