I was raised in church, so the Bible and it's values are ingrained in me. My conscious takes after the Bible, and I can't do much about it. I augment it with logic and common-sense, because frankly, it is hard to debate using JUST the Bible as your stem of knowledge. Logic is simple, easily understood, and hard to refute.
I don't know about everyone else, but I follow my conscious when it comes to good and bad. Whenever I am about to commit something "bad" I always get that little nagging feeling that eventually turns into guilt. If I do something "good" then I get that feeling of accomplishment. Nobody taught me what was good or bad in every specific little situation, I simply learned the core vaules and applied that to the rest of my life.
I do not believe in the "treat others as you would like to be treated." If someone treats you badly, it gives you excuse to treat them badly. It invites revenge, spite, jealousy, maybe even slight narcissism. If somone wronged me, yes I would love to get back at them, and I do, but afterwards that nagging feeling in my concsious comes back after the sense of victory fades. Then my conscious takes over and I am guilty. I believe I should treat others kindly no matter how I am treated, I won't settle for lesser standards.
So there's my thoughts.
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I would rather believe in God and find out He doesn't exist than not believe in God and find out He does. |