I heard you...did you hear yourself?

When you listen to a person teach your ears need to listen beyond what he is teaching at the moment and go beyond...

You need to find out if his teachings on day to day life match up to his beliefs on reality...on the whole of life.

Anyone can say "a person needs to be responsible for their actions" but does their view of reality match that teaching?

Does the teachings of atheism foster responsibility?
We are accidents on this mud ball, hurling without plan or purpose throughout an empty vacuum? No reason for life...and no one to answer to when we die...because we cease to exist?

Wow! That's a view of reality that just shouts of responsibility...doesn't it [wink, wink]

How about Hinduism...does this religion foster responsibility?
It teaches us that all reality is one...and that all distinction is really illusion.

This means that good actions verses bad actions are really nothing...illusion!

They can tell you to be kind and feed the poor...but it really doesn't differ from being a jerk and letting the bums starve...because all is really one...no distinctions...they are really only illusion.

Buddhism teaches karma but in the end the life flame that pass on to the next life is of such a nature that the next life really isn't conscious of the previous life. So if I live like a real jerk in this life...some other sucker is going to reap the benefits or curses of it...my personal continuity doesn't pass down...Dale C in this life isn't Dale C in the next...not really responsibility promoting is it?

This belief system also tells you that if you don't get it right the first go...hey there are thousands of other tries...almost like Halo 2 on XBox.


Christianity teaches that you have one life to live, one life to trust in Jesus Christ, the only Saviour, one life to live for God or continue to rebel against Him.
It teaches that God creates and governs all things...He makes the world, He makes the rules, He watches to see what people do with His world...with His rules...and ultimately, one day, everyone will give an account of their life to God...with heaven and hell...hanging in the balance.

Christianity is consistent...it teaches responsibility and its whole worldview supports this teaching.