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Originally Posted by Clara22
It makes sense because those ideas have already been introjected and are part of you. But you know that morality reigns over human social behaviors and that these are complex, they cannot be viewed just through the sin glasses. And that morality can be traced in animals other than human beings. I mean, predecessors of morality. I don't want to justify our sins. Just to understand them, the nature of punishment and self-punishment. Sorry to use the reason always. People tell me I intelectualize stuff too much. But it helps, I believe
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I think that people have to chose for themselves if they want to be lieve in God or not. All people have a moral platform for their feet. From that moral place they choose what is good and what is bad. Even if we agree about what is good and not good, our consciences are formed individually with regard to how strict they are (Freud
). I think that those with a strict conscience will have other problems with their psyche then those with a not so well build conscience. Those with a strict conscience will rather become depressed, while the other type might be easy targets to persuade into doing crime. Their suffering will be about what they did (sitting in prison).
I hope I'm not too intellectual today
, but I think this topic is very interesting (to me at least). These two clings of people (of course there are many variants in between) will have to have different treatments to have a better life. The strict ones will have to learn to become less rigid while those on the other cling will have to build a stronger conscience.
I read some place that when people with a strict conscience had had a successful therapy, their anxiety for a cruel god (if they were believers) became changed as well. God became good.
