Physophical Question of the Day:

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Physophical question of the week day:

A while back, one the kids I watch was doing their spelling homework, making sentances with their spelling words. The sentance the kid came up with (and he was rather proud of this) was:

"We burned the church down to the ground."

I was kind of horrified by this, and steered the sentance to something else, also using the spelling words. But he couldn't understand why I was disturbed by this sentance and I couldn't figure why he wasn't. Until he said that he'd never been to one. To him, a church was just a building. ~_~

-Since his father is supposedly bringing them up Christian, that's for him to teach them about and one discussion I'm not getting into. I'm there to make sure homework gets done.

But I was talking to my Dad about this and he made a comment that has had me thinking. He thought that it was a pity that the kids weren't going to some sort of church, because religion tended to be one of the major things that shaped one's morals and sense of right and wrong.

I've been kind of pondering that ever since... Just how much does religion reflect on a person's sense of morals or is something that is more dependant on the person?

er, does that make sense? ._.

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Comments

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Personally I don't think any religion shapes a person's morals. Everyone has a sense of right and wrong, religions mostly just make things a bit more specific: which acts are worse than others (or not) and that sort of thing. In my experience most s-called Christians don't act all that Christ-like at all, either, nor do they seem to bother with really *thinking* about what their faith says and practicing it in their lives. If they had, maybe there would have been more than a few less atrocities committed by Christians.

Someone else mentioned something about there being rewards for living according to the commandments or something. As to that, my personal experience is that such rewards sure seem to be totally non-existent.