Ilana Gaster: I believe that morals exist outside of faith. Much like archtypes, I believe to some degree, we are all born with a sense of right and wrong. Though, more often than not, morals are created by the society in which you live. This can often be related to the society's religion, but in the end, it's up to the people that are in the society- not god itself. As for justification? I don't have any. Each culture is different, and I can't say that I approve of some society's moral codes, but it is what it is. If I don't live the life, or live in that society, I can't really pass judgement on it.
Hye Caulley: I'm an atheist now but I grew up a Christian. I attended a Christian high school and I specifically remember one of the teachers there was in an abusive relationship for a long time. He regularly beat her and demeaned her and her children. She eventually got away from him, including a divorce, and it took her years to get back on her feet. She had to r! aise her children on a teachers salary by herself, but from the stories I heard, she was right to have gotten away from him. He would have destroyed her entire life without a second thought.I felt it was the right thing to do then and I still feel it was the right thing to do now....Show more
Bo Perham: Every one has morals to some degree or another. But good morals alone is not what gets you into the kingdom of God.Turning your life over to Jesus Christ and having Him reign in your heart and life is what's most important.
Claudio Drullard: i'm innocent... whatsoever are you talking about....Edit to above: The quickest way to a man's heart isn't through his stomach, try going between the 3rd and 4th ribs instead...heh
Berry Gilmore: I have lust for you doing you cheer-leading for me does that make me lustful.
Marcelina Schossow: Everyone is different. There are a lot of Asians who have no facial hair at all. Philippine men and women both get littl! e single hairs just above the outer edges of their lips. Both! the men and women have them cut.
Donny Bankson: Of course morals exist outside of my faith. According to the Catholic church, good people who are not Catholic may be welcomed into heaven. As for your other questions, one could write a book answering them. Rather than do that, I would just say that cultures and/or societies do establish some basic moral principals, and they enforce them, in part, with laws. Many are the same or similar across different cultures, but many are quite different. It is certainly a complex topic.
Fermin Tara: but isn't divorce being unfaithful to your spouce? to god? to your promise to god until death do us part?we are all hypocrites and inspired by convenience but Christians sometimes push it ad nauseum....Show more
Rosalba Lingner: You guys are too sexy for your own good and it's turned me into a bad girl.
Elvin Mannheimer: Considering that America is a predominantly Christian country with a divorce rate of about 50%, I! would say it is very unlikely.After all, it is a reasonable assumption that most of the divorces are between Christians.
Carter Dewater: Of course. Morals are what we as humans assign as 'right' and 'wrong'. They are not set by God, nor does he control them. Everyone has morals.True right and wrong, however, are controlled exclusively by God. Or rather, defined by. He wrote a whole book saying what right and wrong was. Sure, we can try and figure it out on our own--but in the end, it helps to hold God's rulebook over everyone elses. After all, your neighbor doesn't decide your fate for eternal life.
Janita Tetlow: I do beleive that morals exist outside of religion. I think these morals exist on a sub concious level. When people chose not to believe in God or a higher power, they create habbits or mandates to dictate there life. Becuase everybody lives for something. You get a group of people to follow these habbits and they'll soon become laws or morals.Now the! fact that right and wrong are controlled by God has to be analyzed. Ye! s I beleive that God has pre determined what is right and wrong, but I beleive that its our choice as humans to follow his set of commandments or not. Basically morals do exist outside of religion. Before I was born again I knew what was right and wrong.
Rick Duchane: You're a BAD girl!Go to my room!
Kristina Brockwell: I would
Lawana Neemann: Adultery is a sin...not divorce
Hunter Beech: because you are heating up internally....like a turkey you have to meet a certain temperature before the thermometer pops...and you have to reach a certain degree as well before you"POP"you're too sexy for your shirt,too sexy for your shirt ...so sexy it hurtshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcbsy5SiCIo
Cassondra Vanholland: If so, how do you define them? Do you think that one could establish a set of moral principles which could be applied to everyone regardless of religion? What would be your justification for these set of morals?Or, do you only think that r! ight and wrong are exclusively controlled by God? And, if you do, why do you think that?...Show more
Eldridge Rieves: Yes, there is a moral base in most faiths. we learn early what we are allowed to do and what we are not suppose to do. with or without religion. if we fear the the punishment we won't break the rule. if we are taught to treat others with respect, we will. all the world's major religions have a "golden rule". Muslims are the most charitable religion in the world. Christians, Jews and Islam all spring from the same roots. I think we lose our moral compass when we start finding fault with our neighbors religion rather than just getting along.
Georgia Dees: it may well be greater useful if it have been listed alongside with a 2nd proposition to REestablish gay marriage -- in spite of everything, isn't the entire theory to motivate good relationahips? in actual actuality it is going to easily visit tutor that maximum hypocrites are such because of th! e fact they have a would desire to reapportion guilt removed from thems! elves.
Michel Mccaulley: Men's Arm pits, do you have to keep cutting them? Hair on a man's legs, do you have to keep cutting them? Hair on a man's head should it not be the same?----From the Bible I quote--- Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?And how come Jesus doesn't have a Crew Cut? Huh?
Alexander Villas: no.... the problem is in YOU... Mark Chapter 721 For from WITHIN, out of the heart of MEN, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 ALL these evil things come from WITHIN, and defile the man....Show more
Stormy Beliard: I'm a man who hasn't had a haircut since 1991 because i don't believe God would have made a body part that needed to be constantly lopped off. It makes no sense to me. Rastafarians believe in leaving their hair natural too.
Blythe Noreiga: the bible! is not to be taken literallyafter allit is just fictionlike harry potter and alice in wonderland...Show more
Pam Rampadarat: i do believe morals exists outside of my faith or any faiths for that matter. Each culture or beliefs has its own set of moral codes to adhere to whether strictly or not. Thomas Nagel, an american philosopher states that "there is no moral analogue of the external world-a universe of moral facts that impinge on us casually." He is simply saying that there is no universal law on morality in that morality is dependent on where you came or were born from. There is no "self-evident steps" that anyone can use to determine what is right and what is wrong. Moral reasoning is objective like actual scientific reasoning. We must experience it ourselves in order for us to believe it to be true. One cannot assume on the basis of others whether a certain action, feeling, desire or intention is justified or not. Morality is relative to the culture and region! from which you were taught. It is similar to objective scientific reas! oning in that "empirical confirmation plays a vital role…but it cannot do so without theory." Moral reasoning is "concerned not with the description and explanation of what happens but with decisions and their justification."Right or wrong is not controlled by God. How do even know what God even thinks is right or wrong. Right or wrong are truths that we humans create and not God. Each society and religion creates their own set of moral principles...some of those principles might overlap from one society to another, but that does not make them universal truths. What it does make them is what i consider a "common moral truth" that these societies or religions share and not a moral principle that should apply to all.
Bethanie Menden: Divorces don't mean that you marry again. There could be legitimate grounds for a secular divorce, such as physical abuse. But there are not any grounds for remarriage. What God has joined, no man can tear apart.In my perfect country, ! there would be no remarriage.
Porfirio Gartland: He was a rebel and he knew one day The Beatles would come to America
Malcom Fenoff: On a side note, why would The Yamster suggest I place this question in cooking?
Melissa Lavallie: Neither did Sampson, in fact, look what happened to him when his hair was cut.
Len Dalba: I believe morality came from God. He has given moral knowledge to everyone, regardless of religion. I think the proof of that is if you look at most religions (or even cultures) they have rules or stipulations against adultery, telling lies, murder, and thievery. You can't just say that majority rules when it comes to morality. If you could then the sentence 'the vast majority of the people took place in an evil deed.' Then there is good and evil. Some people will actually be delighted at the thought. So obviously they themselves have beliefs of good and evil.Is there something other than God that could create such strong feelings abou! t 'morality' to be so widespread? I don't believe so. And as for good a! nd evil....in order for something to be evil it must be against that which is good. Something or someone had to have declared what is good. Once again, I feel only God could have put in place such a widespread belief.
Evelin Turlich: No, it's probably because of an evolutionary need to procreate with the best and the brightest (one of which I was, many years ago).
Gaylord Barragan: Now heat the heart to 250 Fahrenheit.Wait 30 minutes and take out of the stove Add clove and saltServe!
Cierra Gadbaw: I certainly hope that doesn't apply to me. I am babby.
Serena Doak: Yep. Bunch of smexy beshes.Just sayin'.
Ramona Pago: You are in the realm of philosophy, anytime you ask these questions.Plato believed that morals exist, yes.Aristotle believed however that might makes right, and that anything done by a strong king is ok.For yourself, you have to ask yourself how you will decide to act. That is precisely why some people choose to join a particula! r faith, or else to continue in the faith they were raised.Others prefer not to be fettered by any given organized faith.Depending on where you live, in the world, your government is either going to give you religious freedom, or else it is going to prescribe a religion for you.If you live in a free country, then you are lucky, because then you get to make the choice yourself. Otherwise you might end up getting your head chopped of by your government because you made a choice they do not like.The overarching morality within Christianity is to "do unto others as you would that they should do unto you."This is an extremely good rule, and universally applicable, to all except anyone who is a powerful warlord and a megalomaniac.So you can judge yourself, and ask, are you a megalomaniac?
Mark Villifana: Jesus had short hair. The painters from the dark ages had no idea what Christ looked like. They guessed, just like Hollywood. Cut eyebrows? Yes. Legs and armpits? No! ....Show more
Lino Cawthorne: Morality is a subjective position ba! sed on cultural mores, what is reprehensible in one society might be admirable, even heroic, in another. Religion is a largely just an organized attempt to use spiritual beliefs to achieve wealth and power within a society and as such it's morality is whatever gets it what it wants, hardly something that any God worthy of the name would endorse.
Virgilio Echter: Because , a man who puts away his wife for another woman is the ONLY scriptural reason for divorce. That includes a woman who cheats on her husband. SO NO, the Bible clearly grants divorce for adultery, why would a REAL CHRISTIAN go against the Bible teachings?
Wilfredo Muldoon: [The Lord God of Hosts DOES NOT recognize a 2nd marriage until the 1st spouse dies. Live single until death or return to the first spouse. There are no loop holes.]1. [Fornication: An “unmarried" man or woman who engages in sexual relations with another, whether that other person is married or not. Includes rape.]2. [Adu! ltery: A "married" man or woman who engages in sexual relations with another, whether that other person is married or not. Includes rape.]3. [Lasciviousness: Adultery, bestiality, brothels, fornication, incest, necrophilia, masturbation, orgies, polygamy, pornography, prostitution, provocative attire, provocative dancing, rape, sadist & masochistic sex, sex change, sex-trafficking, sex magic, sex with inanimate objects, strip clubs, & sodomy.]4. [Putting Away = Divorce]King James Version BibleMatthew Chapter 199. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, EXCEPT [IT BE] FOR FORNICATION, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.Romans Chapter 72. For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.3. So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, SHE SHALL BE C! ALLED AN ADULTERESS: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that ! law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.4. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.[fruit = the saints and the elects]Proverbs Chapter 518. Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.19. [Let her be as] the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.Ecclesiastes Chapter 411. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm [alone]?Proverbs Chapter 520. And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?Matthew Chapter 527. Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:28. BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her alrea! dy in his heart.Luke Chapter 1618. Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from [her] husband committeth adultery.Malachi Chapter 214. YET YE SAY, WHEREFORE? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet [is] she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.15. And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? THAT HE MIGHT SEEK A GODLY SEED. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.[godly seed = Jesus Christ, the saints, and the elect]16. For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that HE HATETH PUTTING AWAY: for [one] covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.John Chapter 416. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.17. The woman a! nswered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast wel! l said, I have no husband:18. For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast IS NOT THY HUSBAND: in that saidst thou truly.Galatians Chapter 519. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; ADULTERY, FORNICATION, uncleanness, LASCIVIOUSNESS,20. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,21. Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.Ecclesiastes Chapter 811. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.John Chapter 161. These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.1 Corinthians Chapter 414. I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn [you].Mark Chapter 109. What therefore God hath joined together, LET NO MAN PUT AS! UNDER.James Chapter 116. Do not err, my beloved brethren....Show more
Fannie Collingwood: No. Because there would not be a need for divorce if a) we were all proper Christians in the first place b) we got married according to spiritual principles and not having consummated our relationships before getting His blessings so most of us now live in sin despite claiming to be Christians and married.
Mahalia Brindle: They only support banning things they don't like. They love divorce, which is why they get divorced just as often as anyone else.
Leif Andreason: The quickest way to a man's heart really *is* through his stomach, apparently.
Ivan Velazquez: A couple things come to mind actually...First, banning divorce was not solve the problem. There are many things that are illegal that continue to prevail throughout society. I suspect that instead of legally divorcing, many couples would simply separate and carry on other relationships outside of their! legal marriage.Second, there DOES exist a scripturally acceptable caus! e for divorce: "In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said that “everyone divorcing his wife, except on account of fornication, makes her a subject for adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.†(Mt 5:32) By this, Christ showed that if a husband divorces his wife for reasons other than her “fornication†(por·nei′a), he exposes her to adultery in the future. That is so because the unadulterous wife is not properly disunited from her husband by such a divorce and is not free to marry another man and have sexual relations with another husband. When Christ said that whoever “marries a divorced woman commits adultery,†he was referring to a woman divorced on grounds other than “on account of fornication†(por·nei′a). Such a woman, though divorced legally, would not be divorced Scripturally."...Show more
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