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If Religion Doesn't Make You a Better Person...
If a religion doesn't make you a better person, then what good can it be?
Just to be clear, you're acknowledging that religion could make someone a better person (i.e., the kind of person who treats other people better, is more generous and giving of one's self, etc.), but in some/many/most cases, religion does not do that. I see the merit in that assertion of yours. So given that premise, you're asking what else can religion offer that is "good" from someone's perspective. There are a lot of possible benefits (the applicability of each, of course, dependent on how much the person-in-question avails themselves of such benefits):If a religion doesn't make you a better person, then what good can it be?
If a religion doesn't make you a better person, then what good can it be?
It can give you the clue about how to be a better person and drive to get there .If a religion doesn't make you a better person, then what good can it be?
If a religion doesn't make you a better person, then what good can it be?
"Religion" isn't good AT anything. It has no motives or agency, much less skills.
If a religion doesn't make you a better person, then what good can it be?
At the very least it gives anti-religionists something to feel superior over.If a religion doesn't make you a better person, then what good can it be?
That made no sense whatsoever.
At the very least it gives anti-religionists something to feel superior over.
Let's stop right there. Why do you believe religion cannot make you a better person?If a religion doesn't make you a better person,