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Cyrus Shahmiri ![]() Tsar ![]() ![]() King of Kings Joined: 07-Aug-2004 Location: Iran Status: Offline Points: 3963 |
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I said in this thread:
and Omar al Hashim replied:
Do you agree with him? "Follow the true religion which is your conscience (your godly nature), nothing can change it, that is the eternal and stable Religion (has ever existed) but most people don't know it!" (Quran 30:30) Edited by Cyrus Shahmiri - 05-Nov-2008 at 13:15 |
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gcle2003 ![]() Immortal Guard ![]() ![]() Joined: 06-Dec-2004 Location: Luxembourg Status: Offline Points: 7011 |
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I don't see what else anyone can do.
Unfortunately not everyone has a conscience that prevents him doing harm to others. So crime and therefore punishment will always be with us.
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In Romans Paul's epistle (chapter 2), he says that those who haven't had the Law (of the Judaic religion), meaning the pagans, will be judged by their conscience:
14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. Also, in Eastern Christianity, the voice of the moral conscience is considered the voice of God in our hearts, that tells us what is good and what is bad, and that by repeatedly unobeying it, it dies, is no more accusing or stopping you from bad things. Edited by Menumorut - 05-Nov-2008 at 15:27 |
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Mixcoatl ![]() Immortal Guard ![]() ![]() Joined: 02-Aug-2004 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 4581 |
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Then why does God say different things to different people? Edited by Mixcoatl - 05-Nov-2008 at 16:56 |
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"Some argue that atheism partly stems from a failure to fairly and judiciously consider the facts"
"Atheists deny the existence of Satan, while simultaneously doing his work." - Conservapedia |
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Because some have been indoctrinated with man-made precepts, or have some mental disorders.
I add that some Father of the Church (don't remember who, maybe Augustin) said that the Christians have a stronger feeling of conscience than the non-Christians. |
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Mixcoatl ![]() Immortal Guard ![]() ![]() Joined: 02-Aug-2004 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 4581 |
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Then how can one know if what ones conscience tells you is the actual word of God or man-made indoctrinations? If my conscience says A is the right thing to do, whuile yours says B should be done, how can we tell which one (if any) is right?
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Menumorut ![]() Chieftain ![]() ![]() Joined: 02-Jun-2006 Location: Romania Status: Offline Points: 1116 |
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What is generaly accepted as good and bad by most of humanity is the natural conscience.
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Of course many people distinguish morality and ethics from religion and do not consider that we (I'm an atheist) need a religion to guide us, rather we trust our own morality, common sense and ethics. So the responsibility is mine to determine the above and act accordingly, in conjuction with the society and I do not delegate this responsibility to an imaginary entity.
Spoken like a true Hyparxist. Camus would be proud!
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Cyrus Shahmiri ![]() Tsar ![]() ![]() King of Kings Joined: 07-Aug-2004 Location: Iran Status: Offline Points: 3963 |
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Lets read previous ayat:
"The ones who do wrong follow their own Hava without having any knowledge." (Quran 30:29)
Edited by Cyrus Shahmiri - 05-Nov-2008 at 19:38 |
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Cyrus Shahmiri ![]() Tsar ![]() ![]() King of Kings Joined: 07-Aug-2004 Location: Iran Status: Offline Points: 3963 |
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I don't want to say Zoroastrianism, Atheism, Christianity or Islam are not good and you shouldn't follow them but I believe "bias" certainly relates to "hava", I mean you will follow your Hava, if you say all good things are here (in this religion or ideology) and nothing else can guide or help me to clear my conscience.
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Omar al Hashim ![]() Immortal Guard ![]() ![]() Joined: 05-Jan-2006 Location: Snowy-Highlands Status: Offline Points: 5725 |
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Oh you mean the native deen - that naturally people will follow Islamic values. Sorry Cyrus I didn't understand what you meant when you said that. The verse you have referenced explains it perfectly. The difference between a persons conscious and temptation.
In that case I think I agree with you.
Edited by Omar al Hashim - 05-Nov-2008 at 23:58 |
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Cyrus Shahmiri ![]() Tsar ![]() ![]() King of Kings Joined: 07-Aug-2004 Location: Iran Status: Offline Points: 3963 |
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Christianity relates to the Christ and a Christian is a follower of the Christ, it can be said about Zoroastrianism & Zoroastrians, Buddhism & Buddhists, ... Judaism is also the religion of Jews, but Islam is not the relgion of the Arabs and there is no relation betwen Islam and Muhammad, so Muslims are not the followers of Muhammad, Islam (from the root Salam) means to submit to your conscience, not hava or any person or nationality. Therefore Christians, Zoroastrians, Muhammadans, Jews, ... who follow their conscience are real Muslims, "Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was the follower of the true relgion, a muslim." (Quran 3:67), in Quran 42:13 we read that all true relgions are them same, there has been always just One Religion: Follow Your Conscience! In this case, as I said before, I am a muslim.
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In brief, we are obligated to follow an informed conscience. That is to say that we have an obligation to continue to follow our conscience while continuing to inform it. If anyone wishes to discuss this position further, send me a pm, and I'll be happy to engage in a discussion in a week or so.
-Akolouthos
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Of course many people distinguish morality and ethics from religion and
do not consider that we (I'm an atheist) need a religion to guide us,
rather we trust our own morality, common sense and ethics. So the
responsibility is mine to determine the above and act accordingly, in
conjuction with the society and I do not delegate this responsibility
to an imaginary entity.
i would like to point out that you are confusing the words "morality" and "ethics" as having the same or similar meanings. the truth is that morality is a law code or a belief system based on majority vote. if 51 % of the pop;ulation say murder is wrong, the moraly speaking, murder is bad. but ethics is a different kettle of fish. ethics is based on a higher law, set by a supreme omnipresernt all powerful diety. so reguarless of what mortal vote dictates, right and worng are not decided by our personal prefrences, but by the big boss up stairs. ![]() |
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Truthisnotrelitive ![]() Housecarl ![]() ![]() Joined: 13-Oct-2008 Status: Offline Points: 32 |
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with all due respect my freind, there is no room for ethics in an atheistic worldveiw.
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Styrbiorn ![]() Caliph ![]() Joined: 04-Aug-2004 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 2818 |
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Nonsense. Of course there is. Even the very beginnings of ethics as a studied subject was not directly related to religion. In fact there were discussions of ethics visavi religion long before Christianity was born. Edit: by the way, "moral" is the Latin translation of the Greek "ethics". In the modern era the words are treated basicly synonymous, sometimes with the distinction that moral is applied ethics. Edited by Styrbiorn - 06-Nov-2008 at 11:38 |
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gcle2003 ![]() Immortal Guard ![]() ![]() Joined: 06-Dec-2004 Location: Luxembourg Status: Offline Points: 7011 |
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You can't, which means you're asking a pointless question, which is a trivial one anyway. The important question is what behaviour should society permit, and which should it forbid.
Forget 'right' and 'wrong' and consider only objective 'harmful' and 'harmless'. If something visibly and actually harms other people then it should be criminalised, not because it is 'wrong' but because it is harmful. If it doesn't, it shouldn't be criminalised, but not because it is 'right'.
If you then feel it is right to break the law then go ahead, but expect to be punished for it and don't claim justification, because your conscience does not justify your action. The same applies if you feel it is 'wrong' to follow the law. Follow your conscience and take the punishment.
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I don't have a conscience, so I guess I can't be mislead by the devil. Though it's going to make following it a bugger.
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