A Moral Debate

     Can you have a moral debate without inflicting religion? Of course you can! I have them all the time! My friend Paul is an extremely religious person and I having no faith are able to argue and debate over moral issues without inflicting religion. We both agree that religion harms the strength of a debate. To bring the class discussion into this blog, we actually would debate about abortion a lot. He is pro life and I am pro choice. We debate about the morality of it. We discuss what is life, woman's rights and how it can have effects on the people involved in the initial pregnancy. So yes, debates can happen based solely on moral arguments without inflicting religion or even science.

Seeing is believing?

      I agree with what was discussed in class that faith is believing in the absence of being able to see. I think that faith is hard for the visual person to believe because there is absolutely no way to see a god, or see god preform a godly act. Maybe this is one of the reasons I have such a hard time with religion, because I need to see things to believe that they are true. I need a full and complete explanation of something to understand, believe and comprehend it.
      So how do some people give into faith so easily? I think that people are too afraid not to believe. I think that their fear of there not being a god, or even a life after a worldly life scares them into believing in a god that may or may not exist. We are taught to fear a life with no god.

I just don't know!

   I wish I could be  a compatablist, but I'm not. I don't know where I stand. Perhaps I just don't believe in either theory. I wish that I could believe that everything happens for a reason, but we have the choice to change it, but if I take each theory wholly, then it simply can't be done.
   Maybe I am a determinist. The more I think about it, I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I think that we are meant to live our lives exactly how we do. I guess it is just weird to think that we have no say in what happens in my life, and that it is all planned out. So I still stick to my position as an incompatablist, but I don't really like the theory of determinism in its entirety.