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If someone does something bad but genuielly believes they are doing the right thing will they go to ?

heaven or equivalent in your religion, atheists who want to partake just answer hypothetically.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago
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    Hypothetically, I believe they are "spiritually" innocent. Realistically, I think they should be locked up while they're alive (assuming the "bad" act was something severe).

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    IN moral philosophy and in common culture and in major religion is the concept of Culpable Ignorance, when you do something bad and it is your fault because you should have known. Has absolutely nothing to do with whether you believe you are doing the right thing or not. That is the whole point : What are your responsibilities in terms of thinking, getting information, acting with some regard for what others think, what professionals say, etc.

    Read the following and then tell me why this person is reprehensible :

    "The philosopher Karl Jaspers, who was also a psychiatrist, tells a chilling story of how he visited a hospital at the end of World War II, and was trying to console a dying German soldier, a young man, who was very troubled in conscience over what he had done as a guard in a concentration camp. “What is it, my son?” Jaspers asked in a kindly tone, “What is tormenting you?” The soldier with difficulty explained that once when he was guarding a line of prisoners headed into the gas chambers, he saw a Jewish boy escape, and now, he explained, on the point of death, he felt deeply upset that he had failed to do his duty and had let that boy get away!"

    He felt that he genuinely would have been a better person to shoot a little boy in cold blood in the back.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    My religion doesn't have anything equivalent to heaven or hell. Not all religions were built out of the same mold.

    My religion doesn't have an official doctrine of life after death, but we don't believe our Gods keep score and dole out rewards/punishments at the end of the day (after all, doing things for punishment/reward are the lowest level of moral reasoning-- we hope we are more advanced than that).

    In my religion, your actions have consequences in this life, and consequences come in many different ways. Also, issues are complex sometimes, it's not always a clear cut case of right and wrong.

    We learn we are to use our heads, to think about our actions and the potential consequences (for ourselves, as well as for others), and to accept responsibility for our actions for good or for bad.

  • 7 years ago

    Yes.

  • 7 years ago

    no

    if god says it is bad and they did it thinking it was right they have sinned and will not see heaven

  • 7 years ago

    No as there is no heavan or hell there is nothing you are gone to

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    No.

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