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Video: Being Good Without God by Purist(m): 4:48pm On May 19, 2012
In the following 11-minute video, Alan Dershowitz talks about the irrelevance of stone age laws and the apparent double standards of modern-day Christians who only obey biblical laws selectively.

He talks about morality and the redundancy of religion in the aspect that people CAN be good without God. People CAN be moral and ACT morally without having on the back of their minds incentives such as divine rewards in the afterlife or the avoidance eternal damnation.

Finally, he totally destroys the much touted Pascal's wager, which quite honestly, has become hackneyed on this forum. Enjoy this well-articulated argument by the Harvard law professor.

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"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion." - Arthur C. Clarke
Re: Video: Being Good Without God by Nobody: 9:25am On May 20, 2012
God is real and so if u do good all ur life without God, goodluck to you when death comes knocking at the door. Everybody can be good and moral but everybody messes up frequently and it's through believing in God that we are saved.
Re: Video: Being Good Without God by Purist(m): 11:47am On May 20, 2012
jacobscros: God is real

Perhaps, but there is no evidence to support this blanket statement.

jacobscros:
and so if u do good all ur life without God, goodluck to you when death comes knocking at the door.

Ah, that all-familiar threat of eternal damnation. The problem is, the concept of hell is totally incompatible with the existence of an omnibenevolent God. One would expect that a sensible deity would reward his creations based on the virtues they lived by, and not by what they believed or failed to believe.

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones." - Marcus Aurelius[1]

jacobscros:
Everybody can be good and moral but everybody messes up frequently and it's through believing in God that we are saved.

I find the emboldened quite boggling. One then wonders what Jesus really came to earth to do, if, despite his alleged rescue mission which culminated on the Calvary cross, Christians are still as morally bankrupt as any other, if not more. Only proves one thing, and that is, [religious] belief in God is highly unnecessary nowadays (just like the wisdom teeth).


1. There are contentions as to who actually made that quote.

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