moslem here. I think whatever your religion is, we have to respect one and another. hehee.. 😀

I am an atheist. Hope no one mocks me for not believing.

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And beside, God or religion is nothing but a teaching and symbol. Something that defines what is good and what is bad. Because if a person say This is Good and That is Bad then another person also has the right to say This is Bad and That is Good and cause chaos and disorder. So in the end, they decided that humanity need something above Human to keep people in check i suppose. So there is no supernatural involve. Just symbolic. Of course this is just my opinion 😀 .

Of course, our sense of morality is based on our upbringing, emotions and common sense, so its subjective. Though, I think, people are moral in nature (ah, evolution) and they can pretty much agree on most of moral statements. And as long as they consider the good of others as important they would agree on all of them. Here I would disagree with you. Defining symbol as "God" with its static morals can only bring quarrels and missunderstandings. Humanity is changing, and morality changes too.
I don't think we need a symbol. We can decide what's moral, and what's not, and be accurate at that.

That's exactly the point of all these terrorism and war. These are quarrels and misunderstanding. And beside the moral we know of is only because of teaching. And if you are gonna say we are moral by nature then we are also destructive by nature. Some people say children who knows nothing are so cruel sometime. It's true that we have love by nature but everything has their opposite. Like black cannot exists without white and vice versa. In mostly everyday life people don't normally think of God. Until it comes to morality they think like " Oh God, I did something wrong"

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I'm Christian. Have been for all my life and will be till I die.

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Proud to be an atheist ,was born like that and i don't think I'll ever change. 😀

I'm Roman-Catholic but currently studying about Islam~ <3

I'm an atheist; I don't believe in God and probably never will; I don't like some ancient book telling me what to do and what not to do.
Oh, and people trying to convert me to whatever religion it is they're practicing seriously piss me off; do they really not see that they're being annoying?!
The existence of a God does not seem at all plausible to me, and there's nothing they can say that'll make me change my mind; so, why won't they just leave me alone? Even if you tell them you're not interested they just won't back off!

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my family is christian but not devoted. But i consider myself on the more multicultural side of things. that's my way of things.

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And if you are gonna say we are moral by nature then we are also destructive by nature.

There was a study where they asked children two questions:

1. Will you cheat on test, when your teacher allows you so?
   Majority answered - yes.
2. Will you hit another student, if the teacher asked you to do it?
   Majority answered - no.

Of course, you can easily say, its becouse of the upbringing, but I'll say differently.
"The teacher" in those two questions is the authority figure.
If morality was only instrumentaly supplied by upbringing, autority should be more than enough to release inner "demon" of children, but that doesn't happen.
Why? Becouse children, like every normal human (excluding psychopaths and sociopaths) are able to tell what possible outcome to the other person would his behavior bring.
Hitting a colegue will probably hurt him, and thats why children choose to not to do it.

Some people say children who knows nothing are so cruel sometimes.

Yes they are, but not becouse they "don't know anything". It's becouse their brain may be structured
differently. It's said that many psychopaths walk in freedom, with they urges surpressed by law, and social order. Those children you are talking about may be from that group.
This group is also predicted, by the evolution of altruism. But I don't want to go deeper into the matter here.

Is destruction really a human nature?
Do you go home every day with urge to kill some innocent man or woman?
Is it just the upbringing that stop you from this action?
No, we're not destructive. If we were, we would probably die out millions years ago.
Our most important advantages were inteligence, and team work.
And you couldn't have good team work, when every team member wants to kill another.

When you say:
" Oh God, I did something wrong"

It's just your cognitive dissonance at work. 😀

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I don't really have a religion. I celebrate most christian holidays but I just don't feel like I have to go to church or follow the bible. I just believe in whatever I want.

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i'm atheist too :} && i don't really care what anybody says..

"Your words cut deeper than a knife.."

I'm a follower of the Chinese Folk Religion, which i found to be the religion of my early ancestors. Believing in the old gods is pretty badass, Hail Lord Lei Gong and Lord Guan Yu! What inspired me to become Shenist is mangas and historic research and I don't care if this sounds silly 🙂

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I'm a follower of the Chinese Folk Religion, which i found to be the religion of my early ancestors. Believing in the old gods is pretty badass, Hail Lord Lei Gong and Lord Guan Yu! What inspired me to become Shenist is mangas and historic research and I don't care if this sounds silly 🙂

Guan Yu has a religion? Sounds pretty damn awesome to me

"It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

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I'm a follower of the Chinese Folk Religion, which i found to be the religion of my early ancestors. Believing in the old gods is pretty badass, Hail Lord Lei Gong and Lord Guan Yu! What inspired me to become Shenist is mangas and historic research and I don't care if this sounds silly 🙂

it does not sound silly i think its pretty awesome and creative