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Politics and Religion - 'evangelical' Cameron...
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David Cameron has declared himself an "evangelical" about his Christian faith as he criticised some non-believers for failing to grasp the role that religion can have in "helping people to have a moral code".
Thoughts?
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/16/david-cameron-evangelical-about-christian-faith
Thoughts?
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/16/david-cameron-evangelical-about-christian-faith
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My boyf didnt have either and there are certain things he says/does that i would never do, but i couldn't say whether or not that's just the morals my parents (mainly mum) bought me up with. I do question his inability to forgive and forget... I was always taught that through religious contexts and find it pretty easy to do, he doesn't.
morals are down to individuals though really. I know people who have perfect morals and haven't cone from religious backgrounds. I'm not sure why hes talking about religion tbh
Once you get into the details, things get slightly more complicated - but it's hard to argue against the basic points of trust, kindness, love, charity and forgiveness.
Religions can often do a good job in steering people towards a moral code - yes, sometimes it gets taken too far and there can be problems in that but I struggle to see an argument that the message in the bible stories told in many primary school assemblies around the country aren't giving kids the right message. Yes, there are other ways of getting that message across - but there's one that works pretty well which is a good starting point.
Hard not to agree that they have a root, from things such as Sunday trading to laws on bigamy as well as things which are no longer on the statute book, such as Witchcraft
However English law is equally rooted in the feudalism and the relationship between Crown, Nobles and Commons which hardly seems an argument for going back to an absolute monarchy. Just because something is descended from something doesn't mean that times don't change and the laws and institutions change with them
(Though that said I thought Cameron's comments pretty innocuous)
On the other hand, moral in Islam is to lie for Islam (takiyya), to kill who ever does not follow Islam.
As you can see, huge difference in the moral arena.
I, also, know people who are very decent and has nothing to do with religion. But, those people cannot be in 'perfect moral' every time they encounter a situation, which needs directives. Here comes the role of religion. However, again, what is moral.
He's not quite so keen on it when it's an Islamic faith, is he? :yeees:
Would you agree to condense this into "Christianity: good; Islam: bad" for the sake of brevity?
Can this be condensed into "WWJD"?
Nothing Ballerina said is concerned in any way with specific religions, only religion in general. So nothing that you said is in any way relevant to her post.