← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Lady_America
Thread ID: 8514 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-07-27
2003-07-27 19:05 | User Profile
Can anyone get to the Good Life with God? Or, without God? What is the true definition to you of the Good Life?
I have found that even though my signature mentions 'God'-- I still struggle through trying to figure out what the Good Life would be without a faith in God. I'm an agnostic, but do feel that people's belief in a God has helped many cultures become civilized with laws and expectations of being able to go through their daily lives without a fear of someone coming out from a dark doorway and ending their life just for the shear fun of it. Yet, the belief in a culture's defining God sometimes causes dissension amongst the masses and between different cultures. It has caused the Dark Ages, caused intra- and inter- cultural wars and has contributed to some of the worst cultural genocides in the history of humanity.
I have found that cultures that are politically controlled by religion and their belief in a God are sometimes the worst cultures to live in as they control every aspect of life. And, the instillation of fear in religion and of God are the control mechanisms that keep the faithful, and sometimes the agnostics, from both committing both uncivilized behavior and civilized behavior towards the each other.
Has anyone else ever pondered whether the belief in a God and the problem of evil in the world is needed to understand what the Good Life is or is needed to obtain the Good Life?
Lady
2003-07-28 07:54 | User Profile
Originally posted by Lady_America@Jul 27 2003, 14:05 * *Has anyone else ever pondered whether the belief in a God and the problem of evil in the world is needed to understand what the Good Life is or is needed to obtain the Good Life? **
Sure, Lady. Understandings of what constitutes the 'good life' will vary, but everyone believes in a god of some sort. Even those who claim not to.