08 Jun '10 04:48>
Originally posted by ZahlanziThe meaning of 'good person' in the OP is 'a person whose intentions are good'.
oh, so a person can regularly do bad things and be still called a good person?
what about a good atheist? can a good atheist do bad things? if yes, how can your claim stand?
As I said, it is not only good religious people who do bad things but generally good people who do things religiously - this does include atheists. If I was taught from a young age that our tradition is to do x and x is morally wrong, I may turn a blind eye to the immorality of x or even think it is moral because of tradition, but you would not necessarily call me a bad person for doing so.
If you visited South Africa, and interviewed all the white people who lived here during apartheid and in some way supported the apartheid system, you would probably call many of them 'good people'.