Is there good without God?

The question here to be answered is, can we be good without god? I would like to think so because I believe it’s how the person lives their life and acts out their morals and beliefs to the everyday lifestyle. I was raised in traditional Catholic beliefs and my family would constantly stress the importance of continuing the practice by attending mass and finishing sacraments. I wouldn’t change anything I’ve learned because I truly believe those teachings, beliefs and morals have shaped who I am today. Everyone learns right from wrong in their own way, and if there wasn’t a “god” or religion to believe in people would still find a way to make their life’s as positive as they can. This is why religions exist; people need something higher to believe in to make them feel excepted in some sense reassurance of life now and after death. When people commit sin they need to be assured that they will be forgiven and rebirth through the beliefs of the religion.

Lisa Conyers and Phillip Harvey said in the book that, “a religious person is more likely to commit a crime than a non-religious person (Beedles pg 63).” It goes on to say that the more religious society is the higher in crime rates. Lisa Conyers and Phillip Harvey also said that, “studies indicate that a believer in a religion is less likely to do a good deed than is a nonbeliever (Beedles pg 63).” This is easy to believe because when a person commits a crime and they do prison time, all of a sudden they claim they were touched by god and religion. They began to preach on how changed they are and began residing biblical readings and prayers. Regardless of how committed they are to the religion now, most if not all re-offend. There are a small percentage of those individuals who use religion as an actual savor to change their lifestyle.

Every one commits sin one way or another, were not all perfect, we will never be. If I wasn’t brought up Catholic I wouldn’t think of myself as bad, I would just have learned positive morals in a different way. Faith, religion, and beliefs are simply a personal option and opinion. The only person that controls you is yourself, no one else. I do not always seek “god” for my questions in hope of an answer, instead I seek guidance and use my own knowledge and common sense to get me through my life struggles. At the end I believe a person can be good without god, it’s definitely a personal belief.