Another Question for Pagans- What are your morals and values?

some values that is a part of Paganism (as a religious genre): family, comunity, environment responsability, social responsability, brotherhood, honor, trust, hard work, sincere reverence.

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We all know that Christians think they hold the franchise on morality... they don't!

Indeed no religions hold the franchise on morality and if a person does not follow his or her own personal morality then it can hardly be called morality at all, complying with religious injuctions is just following orders after all...that is not what I call morality.

I agree with goldwing 110083, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is all the morality anyone really needs and we don't need religious institutions & organisations to explain that.

People who live by the golden rule, "do to others what you would have done to you" do not need a religion to tell them what to do...common sense is a far better measurement of a life. Pagan, diest, whatever..it makes no difference . Of course, there are those who go ballistic at the thought of 'non-believers', but I think they are a little misguided, misinformed, and somewhat frightened of their own shadow.

A pagan invented the christian religion years age so morals are human nature and would be pretty much similar. We all stem from the same root.

I guess I'm a Pagan too mostly. I try to be a good person. I think the Golden Rule is a good thing. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." (I think) Treat others as you would like to be treated. Makes good basic moral sense. Also, I do beleive in karma and that if you hurt someone, you get hurt yourself from bad karma.

I believe in ethics: do things or refrain for a reason. Don't do things willy-nilly.

I believe (politically) that people should be given as much freedom as possible, inasfar as they do not harm others.

I believe (economically) that the country should be trying to get out of debt will still serving the needs of the citizens.

Iam curious to know-contemplative as you are- how would answer the following questions:

How did the endless universe we live in come into being?

How did the equilibrium, harmony, and order of this universe develop?

How is it that this Earth is such a fit and sheltering place for us to live in?

I “believe” you know questions such as these have attracted attention since the dawn of the human race. The conclusion reached by scientists and philosophers searching for answers with their intellects and common sense is that the design and order of this universe are evidence of the existence of a supreme Creator ruling over the whole universe.

This is an indisputable truth that we may reach by using our intelligence. God declares this reality in His holy book, the Qur'an, which He inspired as a guide for humanity fourteen centuries ago. He states that He has created the universe when it was not, for a particular purpose, and with all its systems and balances specifically designed for human life.

God invites people to consider this truth in the following verse:

Are you stronger in structure or is heaven? He built it. He raised its vault high and made it level. He darkened its night and brought forth its morning light. After that He smoothed out the earth… (Surat an Naziat: 27-30) Noble Qura’n.

Elsewhere it is declared in the Qur'an that a person should see and consider all the systems and balances in the universe that have been created for him by God and derive a lesson from his observations:

He has made night and day subservient to you, and the sun and moon and stars, all subject to His command. There is certainly Signs in that for people who pay heed. (Surat an-Nahl: 12)

In yet another verse of the Qur'an, it is pointed out:

He makes night merge into day and day merge into night, and He has made the sun and moon subservient, each one running until a specified time. That is God, your Lord. The Kingdom is His. Those you call on besides Him have no power over even the smallest speck. (Surah Fatir: 13)

This plain truth declared by the Qur'an is also confirmed by a number of the important founders of the modern science of astronomy. Galileo, Kepler, and Newton all recognized that the structure of universe, the design of the solar system, the laws of physics and their states of equilibrium were all created by God and they arrived at that conclusion as a result of their own research and observations.

The Findings of 20th-Century Science

Let us recall the two assertions of materialism about the universe:

The universe exists in infinite time and, because it has no beginning or end, it was not created.

Everything in this universe is merely the result of chance and not the product of any intentional design, plan, or vision.

Those two notions were boldly advanced and ardently defended by 19th-century materialists, who of course had no recourse other than to depend upon the limited and unsophisticated scientific knowledge of their day. Both have been utterly refuted by the discoveries of 20th-century science.

The first to be laid in the grave was the notion of the universe existing in infinite time. Since the 1920s, there has been mounting evidence this cannot be true. Scientists are now certain that the universe came into being from nothingness as the result of an unimaginably huge explosion, known as the "Big Bang". In other words, the universe came into being-or rather, it was created by God.

The 20th century has also witnessed the demolition of the second claim of materialism: that everything in the universe is the result of chance and not design. Research conducted since the 1960s consistently demonstrates that all the physical equilibriums of the universe in general and of our world in particularly are intricately designed to make life possible. As this research deepened, it was discovered each and every one of the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology, of the fundamental forces such as gravity and electromagnetism, and of the details of the structure of atoms and the elements of the universe has been precisely tailored so that human beings may live. Scientists today call this extraordinary design the "anthropic principle". This is the principle that every detail in the universe has been carefully arranged to make human life possible.

To sum up, the philosophy called materialism has been utterly refuted by modern science. From its position as the dominant scientific view of the 19th century, materialism collapsed into fiction in the 20th.

How could it have been otherwise? As God indicates "We did not create heaven and earth and everything between them to no purpose. That is the opinion of those who are disbelievers." (Surah Sad: 27) it is wrong to suppose that the universe was created in vain. A philosophy so utterly flawed as materialism and systems based on it were doomed to failure from the very beginning.

All religions and philosophies have a basis in moderation in all things - follow your instincts and you'll have as a good a moral compass as any true believer.

I believe that I ought to always do exactly what I ought to do. It's a heavy burden to carry

just one: don't interfere

of course, that isn't easy and I sometimes break it. otherwise my philosophy recognizes morality as pretense.