Monday, August 10, 2009

You can be good without God


There's evidently a transit campaign to put this saying on buses in Indiana. There's also evidently some movement to stop it from happening. In the midst of the controversy, I heard a pastor's argument against it saying he felt it was "the left" trying to push God out of the something, the country, the government, the schools and even the mass transit system, evidently.

The fact is however, you CAN be good without God. Of course, every person has there own idea of what "good" is. Whether you adhere to a faith or not, there seems a moral standard to which we hold everyone else. My thought on it is this, though; you don't need God to be "good!" Everyone can be good according to somebody's standard even if it's only our own. You do however, need him to breathe and to say the words to declare that you don't need Him to be good.