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Thursday, July 31, 2003 Being Good Without God!Interesting article by Pamela Bone in Saturday's Melbourne Age "To be good, you don't always need God".Here are just a few "grabs": This is a secular society. We must find human reasons for our decisions. On the sense of community Pamela finds in the Red Cross Blood Bank: - I look at those around me, arms hooked up to bottles filling with blood, and think that these are all decent people. - Our intuitive responses, or gut reactions (or the yuck factor, as some describe it) are not a reliable guide to morality, when it is considered that the "yuck factor" once meant white people in America could not share a bus seat with a black person. - The Bible has some very strong things to say about wealth, yet there was the Reverend Gordon Moyes, a staunch opponent of gay ministers, bragging on ABC television that his Wesley Mission has an income of $150 million a year, and threatening to "turn off the money tap" to the national church body. - Why are there not as many debates within the churches about the possession of wealth as there are about sexuality? - To people who don't believe in God, quoting the Bible is as useful as talking to a brick wall. Close to a third of Australians don't accept that God exists. If formal religious observance is any guide, it is likely that far more do not believe strongly that God exists. - It is not enough to say an act is wrong because God forbids it, unless the wrongness can also be justified on moral grounds. Some challenging stuff for us Christians! # posted by geoff @ 5:27 pm 0 comments
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