In this essay I will talk about this question Do we need God to have morals? and what my opinion is about it and other religious views on this is. I will look at Christians, Buddhists, Atheists and Agnostics.

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God and Morality

In this essay i will talk about this question ‘Do we need God to have morals?’ and what my opinion is about it and other religious views on this is. I will look at Christians, Buddhists, Atheists and Agnostics.

I think that believing in god does give you morals although you everyone has a sense of right and wrong because of your conscience. I believe in god so that is probably why i think that we need god to have morals as you pray to god for guidance and sometimes you get that guidance sometimes you don’t; some people think that god maybe sends them a sign to do something or they think they there question is answered in the way they do things. Though i think that if more people believed in god then in the back of your head you would think that if you do something wrong then you might get punished for it, so you use god as an excuse to do good. You could have been good anyway and not even have a religion but you start believing in god and that makes an increase on your good deeds and maybe makes you even better in what you do though i think it just depends on the person.

 Although some people do not agree with me as some religious people think that if someone else does something bad that they should do bad things to those people as they believe the ones who did bad in the first place should be punished. I think this depends on how they were bought up to believe in these things and sometimes people change the way they think the religion is suppose to be because it was just how they feel. Other people believe that someone may have been bad before they believed in god then when they did become religious and started to believe in god that made them god so maybe believing in god does give a better understanding of right and wrong. Some people who don’t believe in god have said that if he was real the all the bad things in the world wouldn’t be there, but if there wasn’t people in the world who do bad things then maybe all the bad wouldn’t be there. Some people say that god is challenging us to do good things so the world will be better for everyone  or maybe the bad things in the world is to punish all the people who don’t do good deeds. Many people believe that good is a guiding power as when i asked this question and asked them to answer by 10 is strongly disagree and 1 as strongly agree it was mainly from 1 to 5 that is where they put their answers so maybe people believing in god helps them to know what to do in life; as people who do believe think that if they do good things then they will be rewarded by going to heaven and that if they do bad then they do to hell. So that perhaps encourages religious people to do good although, the ones who don’t believe in god or heaven and hell maybe  think there if no point in believing as none of it is real and why do good if you’re not going to get anything out of it. People who believe in god and that are religious use the things that they think that god has put for them for instance the holy books and the things the religious people use for guidance and for distinguishing between right and wrong, what they should do what they should and what they should believe in like the Bible, Quran, Torah, and many more that help to lead them to believe that what they’re doing is the right thing.

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  Buddhists say that believing in god makes no difference to morality and whether god exists, but they believe that morality is a big part of life as it helps to take them on a path (dharma) and they believe that morality is not from god as they are meant to follow the rules that the Buddha taught them to follow. Buddhists believe in karma and rebirth/reincarnation and how that helps them as they think if they do bad in their current life then they will be punished in their next life and had bad things done to them. They ...

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