SilverSoldier
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What healthy religion does is promote healthy principles and values. Society secularizes those values and turns them to ethics. Which to me, means whatever is right in court. So we have people battling each other by the billions saying they were wronged, and want justice.
Remember the 10 commandments? When Christ came, he said he fulfilled "the law" or the 10 commandments and said love God, and love your neighbor as yourself. On this principle do all the other laws hang.
If that's the case, if we would return to our best inner principles and values, we really wouldn't need laws. We would all agree on the standard of conduct, or at least group ourselves in accordance with common beliefs. In a way, that's what religion is--a society of people of common values.
Personally, I believe there is a lot of unhealthy religion. But I do believe that if we would act according to our conscience, the world would be a much better place. I believe we wouldn't need a law for every detail if we acted more out of our basic, best principles and values.
Remember the 10 commandments? When Christ came, he said he fulfilled "the law" or the 10 commandments and said love God, and love your neighbor as yourself. On this principle do all the other laws hang.
If that's the case, if we would return to our best inner principles and values, we really wouldn't need laws. We would all agree on the standard of conduct, or at least group ourselves in accordance with common beliefs. In a way, that's what religion is--a society of people of common values.
Personally, I believe there is a lot of unhealthy religion. But I do believe that if we would act according to our conscience, the world would be a much better place. I believe we wouldn't need a law for every detail if we acted more out of our basic, best principles and values.