O-D;245323 wrote:
That would be a good idea, except then the ‘Spirituality, Morality and Religion’ section might as well be deleted.
And to be perfectly honest, I actually am insulted that morality is in the same room as spirituality and religion, because it implies morality is from spirituality and/or religion so that implies Atheists don’t have any moral values.
TBH the reason these were combined was partly because if there are too many sub forums the board gets unwieldy for both users and mods/admins – but it was also to show the opposite – that as you say people who don’t celebrate a conventional form of religion or spirituality can (and of course should) have some kind of moral values and debate them. If we’d had a religion only board it may have only attracted those what thought they were “believers!”. Also there are people who don’t folllow organised worship but consider themselves to be “spiritual”.
I was once a Christian but have not attended worship for nearly 20 years in a protest at the in fighting between religions in this country which I have already explained in some depth.
However (despite on occasions doing stuff such as breaking drugs laws etc) I do consider myself to have strong morals and values (to the point where I have even boycotted certain parties and events because I don’t agree with things what are going on there) without being part of any organised religion.
