hello my dear fellow classmates,
so im going to go back to the subject of the Akedah because i had a new question that i thought about with connection to the Akedah. We learned that there basically is no moral system that is independent of god,. Gos is the one that creates the moral system. With this information, i had a question that really started to bother me. This statement basically claims that we need god in order to have a system of morality. However, there are numerous atheists and other who are very moral people without having a god. This causes a conflict with the statement above. In addition, is it fair to assume that people who dont have a god are immoral? I wonder what you guys will say in order to solve this problem.
This is a very difficult situation..
ReplyDeleteI do not think that it is right to say that an atheist is immoral because he/she doesn't believe in God. He/She can be moral because of his/her personal beliefs.
However, maybe it is that the thing about Judiasm is that everything is so closely intertwined. It's not just morality and it's not just religiousness- they are one package.