Quote from: Malsetid on October 04, 2019, 02:32:07 AM

Quote from: BADecker on October 03, 2019, 03:33:20 PM

Quote from: Malsetid on October 03, 2019, 08:34:45 AM

Hey guys. I've been watching a lot of debates on youtube about this topic where theists, apologetics, philosophers, scientists, agnostics and atheists discuss whether religion has a monopoly over what people perceive to be right or wrong. Guys like WLC, Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, Frank Turek, Richard Dawkins etc. Go after each other's throats to prove their points and honestly, i think every one of them has a valid argument.

What do you think?

If the outcome of the debates does not include enhancing love for God and people, then the debates are wrong.

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Well most of them have no problem with enhancing love for other people as one aspect of morality. They differ largely though when it comes to love of God. We know there more than a thousand religions and a handful of major ones. For the people who believe that religion is the basis of morality, how do one assure himself that his religion is the true basis and not the others?

God made the universe including the earth. What does He do for people, partially to show them His love?:

Quote from: https://biblehub.com/acts/14-17.htm

Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.

Consider religion. James 1:27"

Quote from: https://www.biblehub.com/niv/james/1-27.htm

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

So you see? True and pure religion goes above and beyond simple morality. It goes into extending one's self into loving and helping those in need.

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