[MD] Debate on Science_ReligionToday

[Case]

[Khaled]
interesting perspective on history. So where does the 3rd Abrahamic faith
fall in all this (Islam), and how is Buddhism looked at?

[Case]
You tell me. I mean Mohammed was seriously influenced by the Jewish
scriptures and while Christians lost the Greeks during the dark ages the
Muslims tended the flame. But this is not something I know much about but I
would like to hear more.

[Khaled]
While on a trip to Thailand I asked our tour guide if he had a belief in
Heaven and Hell. He pointed to his temple and said this is your hell.
That sent me reeling that I forgot to ask where heaven is.
The point is that you become you own moral compass. How do you set that?
well I am still looking.

So now it's your own conscious you have to answer to and some deity
somewhere. That is a state of mind that few of us will ever reach. Not in
terms of doing what is right, lots of people do that. But doing it
because YOU know it's right.

[Case]
Yes that is the bush I was beating around in the Sin thread. Sin is missing
the mark. It is failing to live up to our own personal standards. If you
internalize standards from your culture or religion or if you make them up
on your own, Sin is your own personal performance evaluation.