@Kosmokatten

6 days ago

I have lived my entire life without a faith or a god. This has made me into a person who doesn’t seek constant guidance, like an immature child, from an authority, but rather to look within for what is right and true in life. This has made me a more generous and compassionate person compared to people I know who believe in a god, because it comes spontaneous to me from within my person as a human being and not in relation to a book and/or a deity. I have worked many years as a teacher and part from the curriculum, empathy is one of the most important things for children to learn. What is obvious to me is that the most empathetic children I have met are not the ones who live in religious homes but the ones with no religion at all around them, with parents who are empathetic and who act as role models. The religious kids need their rules and constant reminders of right and wrong, because that’s the way they are taught the difference. And so, that is what they will need as adults, since they never got to build those core values within themselves, unrelated to a book or an invisible authority. The other kids know within what’s right or wrong because they were brought up by empathetic role models who carried their moral values and beliefs within them. Religion creates people who need constant guidance on how to be good, moral people. Empathy creates people who carry their moral values and truths within themselves at all times. They don’t have to believe to find out what’s right, they already know.

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