Thread by @usacsmret

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Certainly one can be an atheist and still be a “good person”, but even an atheist cannot be good without a standard by which goodness can be measured. In fact, if you look around, you will see that society’s opinion of right and wrong is in a constant state of flux.

How can a thing be “right” if tomorrow a vote by Congress could make it wrong? How can something be “wrong”, yet made “right” by a vote? Are right and wrong simply opinions based on popular whims? Or is there an unchanging standard by which right and wrong can always be measured?

Christianity was the foundation upon which our society was built. Right and wrong were not determined by the vote of the people but by the standards spelled out in the Bible.

Can an atheist be a good person is not really the question. All of us make choices everyday about how we are going to live and interact with our fellow man.

Our society was built upon a system of standards that come directly out of the Bible. You don’t have to be a Christian to follow the rules, but following the rules makes it easier for us to live together. It makes all of us better.

But being a “good” person does not make you a Christian any more than being a Christian makes you a good person. America would be a better place if we all strove to be “good.”

But what is your standard? What does “being good” mean? Does being “good” even matter if there is no God? America was not founded as a Christian nation but as a nation founded on Christian ethics.

If there is no unchanging standard of right and wrong then eventually we will become a nation not of laws, but of opinions.
Isn’t that what the Supreme Court offers…opinions? Isn’t that how we got in this mess?