Thread: Good People Doing Evil Things

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." -Steven Weinberg, Physicist

Discuss.

Originally Posted by bradybaker

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." -Steven Weinberg, Physicist

Discuss.
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IN posting in another Topic Brady I bbeieve it is a result of our complx nature.

I believe it to be a possibility that our enhanced level of sentience, consciousness and cognitive attributes play a role in manifesting obscure creations of our minds.
Anal sex, Oral sex, fetishes, orgies, cunnilingus, are all manners of human traits. ( some other higher cognitive animals too ) Similar to how humans can manipulate or twist many things to their desire.
But that is by CHIOCE! This begins to make it unravel into 'unnatural.'
Cows, sheep, donkeys have all been known to sometimes have homosexual attributes. I personally do not think it was their upbringing.
It is a flaw in nature.
Not similar to some monkeys and humans that choose to follow a certain paths.

I kind of agree with Howitzer's post.

I would say that is a false statement. It would be more correct as "Religion is a way for bad people to do bad things, under the guise of a good person."

With or without religion, all combinations of action involving good/evil people are still possible.

there are pyschos who think they are good people, like hitler. the worst of us always put on a disguise - but this isnt the fault of religion.

I think good and evil are both open to interpretation for each and every person. Hitler believed he was doing good, he fully believed he was doing good (right up until the end, when he commited suicide I think).

You can be "good" in your own eyes (much like Hitler) but be "evil" in other people's eyes. Like, my gran thinks I'm evil because I dislike old people intensely, and because I think AIDs is doing Africa a favour, and because I believe in racial segregation. Yet I don't think I'm evil at all, in fact I think I'm good.

Having said all of that, religion just alters people's perceptions of what is good and evil, to the point that non-religious people don't understand the reasoning behind (or find the reasoning unreasonable) the actions of some religious groups, and deem that to be evil under the guise of "good".