I'm alittle hurt right now.

[PrUnE]

A freind of mine said to me today, (My name) im gonna try and make u a better person by making u keep the laws right now.

And I realized what she meant, that I'm a bad person cause im an athiest, when I try my hardest to be nice to everyone, before my mom died she told me it wont matter about religion and god wont care about whether u keep "his" laws or not he will care if u r a nice person to everyone

Which I try my hardest to be nice to everyone, but ppl think that im a bad person just cause im an Athiest.

What does it matter if i dont believe in god? honestly, im nice to everyone i know and if ive hurt anyone im sorry.

[Dontknow]

Prune, i dont actually know you so i cant say that YOU are a nice person (lol, im sure you r though), but believening God has nothing to do with being a nice person. You are 100% correct. "bad" is all a matter of prespective.

[WhoAmI]

i think youre perfectly capable of being a good person and an atheist, i think your friend was wrong. maybe you could be a better person by becoming more jewish, but not that you''re not a good person now. tell your "friend" that was insulting

[lost33]

perhaps ur friend realized that morality and what we understand as being a "nice person" stems from the Torah, in ur friends perspective in order to be a full moral and good person it requires one to live in accordance to the basis of morality, the Torah. while you may disagree and you can thats probably the way your friend thinks, this doesnt mean your not a good person but, when looked through a prism of judaism, in order to truly be a "good" person it requires a commitment to the Torah, so dont take it personaly, in your frineds view, who i assume belives in judasim and the Torah, in order for you to truly be a "good" person you hvae to be commited to the Torah, you happen not to beivle in the Torah and as such you wont see it this way and thats your choice but rmemebr that if someone does commit thyemsleves to torah then for them and thier mindset in order for you, a jew, to truly be a nice and moral person it requires a commitment to the Torah. this doesnt mean your not a nice person or do nice things for others, but when looking at your life choices through the prism of the Torah, your choices arent exactly all that good, ie u deny the Torah. so while your freind may have been insensitive in thier commets to you their opinion when taken into account the fact that they view life through a prism of torah, isnt baseless. look at it objectivley and you'll relaize that it may have been an insensitive remark to make it wasnt baseless on your frineds part.

in case you missed the point og this whole thing im not saying your a bad person im just trying to enlightne you to the other side of things, try looking beyond your own personal prejudices towards judaism, and see it how the otherside would look at your chioces, ie how your frined must view how you choose to live your life, not that it is thier affiar but wtvr

[forget]

i still have issues with the terms of what a good kid is and a bad kid is. who decided a good kid studies his whole life while a bad one is the one partying. the good one follows what everyone says while the other just goes with whatever he feels. now not in a conformist/non conformist rebel fight but honestly why is being the model student and perfect child so rewarding?
now that's a tangent but i was wondering.....

but i really think being a good person is the only thing that matters.
try to be nice to people and be nice to yourself and i think you will be happier that way than living up to a bunch of laws you dont even believe in.

[WhoAmI]

agreed, but i think your comments, forget, borderline on the idea of taboo thats basically taking over all of our posts right now. good/bad based on how society defined it, hence, TABOO