As promised... morality in humans. Studies have been done to test the morality of three different groups of humanity. The religious, the atheists and those who have never been exposed to any form of religion (isolated tribes in remote areas that do not have contact with the rest of society). Tests were performed on all three groups to test morality, in short, complicated scenarios were proposed where no clear cut moral answer was present. Obviously asking three people if stealing is bad will get three similar answers. What these tests do not do is judge which morality is correct, what they did do, however, is show that all three groups had the same morality. This means that independent of religion humanity has evolved to have similar moralistic beliefs. Now consider 2 people, one a devout roman catholic and the other an atheist. The catholic would say you have to be good because god is judging us, because god wants us to be good. Basically you have to be good to suck up to god. The atheist would say you have to be good because its the right thing to do. And from personal experience I have been told that Im a bad person because I dont have god or jesus showing me the right way to behave. I have been told by religious people that god will show me right from wrong. But I dont need god to tell me, as studies have shown, nobody needs religion telling them how to be good. And this is not to say that atheists are moral and religious people arent. Its saying that we are all equally moral. WE ARE ALL EQUALLY MORAL. If an alien came to earth and met these two people, and one said I am good because I believe we should be good, and one said I am good because god will punish me if Im not, which person would the alien say is truly moral? So lets stop with the arguments that we need religion to be good, religion does not create goodness, people create goodness.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:39:13 +0000
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