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Originally posted by Neb:
"It is my belief that a large amount of religious people don't really have morals and mainly do things out of fear of punishment/hope of reward."
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1.How can you comment on the motivations of people you don't know or understand?
2.How are you reaching this conclusion? Because people profess and ideal but live short of it?
Have you ever heard of the concept of disconnect? Where there is a persons deeds fall short of their ideals?
That is evidence of human failure - of the individuals failure - to match ideals and behaviour, not that the person(s) don't have a moral code.
In any case, doing things out of knowledge of consequence (eg. Karma/Dharma) is itself a moral code.