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Where do christians get their morals from?
If it's from your god as you claim then what gives you the right to change it to suit yourself?
Christian societies found it perfectly moral to burn jews, muslims, non-believers and other christians at the stake for heresy based on biblical teachings. When did god say you could change that and how did he let you know?
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
We get our Morals from our consciousness like everyone else.
But the GOD of heaven and Earth, gives us a book, to help us sort it out.
- ?Lv 78 years ago
Research shows that the reason humans struggle with emotion to find equitable solutions is pinpointed the region of the brain called the insular cortex, or insula, which is also the seat of emotional reactions.
The fact that the brain has such a robust response to unfairness shows that sensing unfairness is a basic evolved capacity.
The emotional response to unfairness pushes people from extreme inequity and drives them to be fair. This observation shows our basic impulse to be fair isn't a complicated thing that we learn.
It therefore fully illustrates that all humans have morals controlled by the brain and that Christians are entirely wrong to try and claim morals as their own!!!!
But Christians found a way round it!
Government statistics show that christians are vastly over represented in prisons for sexual, violent and fraudulent crime whilst year on year government figures show atheists make up only 2% of the prison population!
The Catholic church is paying millions in compensation for the sex/pedophile crimes of their priests alone!
Christians are vastly over represented in the divorce courts!
Christians invented the concept of sin and then the idea that you could sin, ask forgiveness, get pardoned and start with a clean sheet!
So no surprise that they are so expert at it is it‽
A Christian is a man that feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. - Thomas Russell Ybarra
Source(s): California Institute of Technology - 8 years ago
It is a horrible thing that such things happen. Yet because of the operation of free-will, any person can misrepresent the cause, movement, or Truth of which they present to the public to attain to. That is why Jesus wants us to follow after him.
Carnal man is not perfect and you cannot judge a Truth, soley by the imperfections of any man, or group of men, who stumble during their walk. As stated in James, patience is required to attain perfection.
James 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
During such a time, the spirit, because of free-will, can be led terribly astray.
The Truth is that God did not say that He wanted us to change His spiritual truths and teaching. Any man who changes that is of course representing his imperfection, his disobedience to God, and at the same time growing evil spiritual fruit. Fruit that can manifest itself in the world of man for others to consume and thrive upon.
Matthew 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
- Black SuedeLv 68 years ago
The Bible. The sermon on the Mount. The New Testament letters.
Christians do not change morals to suit themselves. Frauds do.
Fail. No Christian has ever burned any of those people. Don't confuse us with the Catholic Church, which is apostate and even the casual observer can see that they don't follow the Bible.
Ditto the early American Puritans.
- john10001Lv 58 years ago
We get our morals from our parents, from the Bible, God and Jesus. Or at least we are supposed to.
All the facts on the violent acts of Muslims on Christians, Jews and others can be obtained from newspapers, libraries, UN publications, which no logical mind can deny. Muslims usually reply by a asking; "why do the Serbs kill and rape Bosnia's Muslims in the name of God and justice?"
Although one could go on with many similar questions; it is evident that we always had wars and atrocities; Muslim Turks killed 1.5 million Christian Armenians, the Germans killed 6 million Jews, and the prophet of Islam Muhammad killed 6,000 Jews in Al-Madina. In many instances in history we even find Muslims killing Muslims, and more recently, the atrocities of Saddam Hussein, Bashar Al Assad, Omar al-Bashir, Robert Mugabe etc. Sin has been the nature of Man from the beginning.
If Christianity promotes killing innocent people then Christianity must be questioned. If Islam promotes killing innocent people then Islam must be questioned.
I cannot find any other option. Are there any?
Muslim governments are to be at war and carry arms against the world if the world rejects Islam. This is evident the moment one starts looking into the Quran, and is the main reason why Palestinian teenagers wrap themselves with explosives and blow up a Jewish bus, it is the main reason why Sheikh Omar orders the bombing of buildings in New York. The issue is not political only, but a commandment from Allah. Some Muslims might object to these terrorist acts but no Muslim fundamentalist denies that Jihad (Holy War) is not a commandment by Allah. It is part of the Islamic pride that is evident in the world today.
While Muslims are looking forward to destroy Israel, lets look at some of these recent wars, take for instance the Soviet Afghan war, at one time 80,000 Muslims were killed by the Soviets within 48 hours alone, and we ask: Why is there no condemnation by the Arab and Muslim world for all the Muslim blood spilt by the hands of the atheist Soviets?
Why is the hatred towards Jews in Israel while Muslims in Afghanistan have been butchered by the masses from the Soviets? Did Israel, Jews or Christians kill 80,000 Muslims within 48 hours?
The most ironic thing is that the destruction that went on in Afghanistan was caused by the Afghans themselves after defeating the Soviets. Kabul was levelled. There was total destruction of the city. Every man's sword was upon his brother, and every faction claimed to be Muslim.
Anyone who follows the teaching of Christ is a Christian, "He who has my commandments, and obeys them, it is he who loves me" (John 14:21).
Anyone who claims to be Christian who goes around killing Muslims, Jews, and Protestants can hardly be called Christian. A Christian follows Christ, that's why they call them Christians. The principle that you follow should be the title that you hold.
To be a Christian you must follow the Bible. And since the Bible does not promote the kind of violence that the Crusaders did, that Anders Brevik did, that the KKK did, that Serbs did, we must conclude that they did not follow good Christian principles. For that, they are responsible for their action, and not Christianity, which is the whole point we are trying to make.
Remember it was USA and British in Kosovo to defend Muslims who were being slaughtered? George Bush is cheered by Muslims there! Dietrich Bonhoeffer a German Christian pastor during WWII opposed Hitler and the Nazis and was executed by them just a week before the end of WWII for his beliefs. Many nations in history have treated the Jews very badly. Spain, England, Germany, Egypt and so on.
In Islam, on the contrary, the Quran as proved is very different, it promotes killing unbelievers, it promotes subjugating Christians and Jews. Many parts of Mein Kampf are very similar to the Quran. The Bible, on the other hand teaches Christians how to suffer: "Who is afraid of dying? Who is afraid of a threat from any quarter? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or persecution...or danger of sword? As it is written: `For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.'" (Romans 8:27-35).
- Anonymous8 years ago
They determine personally what they believe to be right and wrong, then find Bible passages which agree with them, then agree with those passages and cite them as their source whilst trying to rationalize away passages that disagree with them and still call themselves Christians while only actually purporting their own made up version of Christianity.
- 8 years ago
They get their morals where everyone else gets theirs from -- parents, friends, society as a whole, some individual reflection, etc.
Then they cherry-pick passages from the Bible to justify what they've already decided to believe.
Source(s): I am an atheist; i.e., a modern man. - Anonymous8 years ago
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- Ernest SLv 78 years ago
All have moral awareness.
And all are sinners so therefore none are good.
What you write is confused and bigoted rant.