No, I was referring to the claim that a God belief helped prevent wrongdoing (see post
#44).
The Copenhagen interpretation is the least convincing of the major interpretations, introducing, as it does, an ad-hoc instantaneous probabilistic wavefunction-collapse discontinuity into its otherwise uniform and deterministic evolution.
Well, you can see it's straightforward to expect that if a person truly does believe in God and understands God see all that they do.... and if the person has some awareness of the many warnings to us about that:
From Christ we read these famous words to us:
12 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. 13 Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to
destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14
For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
...21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not...do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them,
‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
24 “Everyone
then who hears these words of mine and
does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
It's just so clear: if we don't do as He taught, we will be destroyed after this life....
So, if you can consider what that would mean to someone that truly believes....someone that believes will have this awareness of the real situation causing them at times to admit wrongs they have done and 'repent' (turn away) from that particular kind of wrong -- for which repentance we know we receive redemption -- and so that person will have with gradual lasting changes in their personality/behavior. That's not hard to expect would happen some, right? Sure, not everyone will be the same -- some might reform better/sooner, etc. -- but it's like a constant gravitational force towards positive change...if one believes. Notice that emphasis -- I say "if one believes". Many in churches do
not believe in this manner. But many do also. Churches tend to have some that believe and some that do not.