SAT2
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- Nov 19, 2011
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judas had no choice....that is my point.....
Everyone always has a choice, including Judas. If there were no free will, there would simply be no point to this whole humanity experiment at all. What would God need with a planetful of marionettes?
Atheists and agnostics are often morally and socially responsible people. Religious faith is not necessary for morality.
I would agree but the key word in your statement is "often". There are most certainly those who without faith would conduct themselves in a manner that was less morally appealing. I am not saying everyone would, but a segment of society would probably do exactly what I suggested.
For me it wouldn't really matter because my theology is such that hell does not exist and neither does sin so I choose to act in a moral way because I have searched myself and concluded that immoral behavior (whatever that really is) does not reflect "who I am" and not out of a fear of God or eternal damnation. But that's me, and my religious views are far away from the mainstream.
But for fundamentalist religious people of any religion it would be catastrophic and I think you would see a good segment of them adopt an attitude of "it doesn't matter anymore....fuck it"
I don't think most people are fundamentalists, and yet we don't see what you describe.