2006-09-14 08:38:29 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Whenever I see a question like this, I am appalled to be reminded that there are people out there who are so out of touch with their basic humanity, and reality, that they would not have any idea how to conduct themselves in society, absent the code of an imaginary supernatural being, based on the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of an ignorant bunch of Bronze Age fishermen and wandering goat herders.
Cooperation, altruism and love are innate properties of human existence... a more sophisticated version of the social organization that you can see among pods of dolphins or orcas, packs of wolves, lion prides and troops of chimpanzees. Moral consensus, moral conscience and mutual empathy are evolved survival traits. These are social constructs... the social lubrication that allows people to exist together. People come away with the misconception that they don't exist, absent religion. The religious puppet masters try to perpetuate that idea, in order to protect their conduits to wealth and power... but that is a canard. This has to do, entirely, with human nature.
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"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." ~ Steven Weinberg
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Richard Dawkins - The Root of All Evil Part 2.1 (moral behavior)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mGLPViVW5ms
Richard Dawkins - The Root of All Evil Part 2.6 (evolution basis for morality)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mGLPViVW5ms&mode=related&search=
Meditate on this for a little while. Christians make up about 75% of the US population and 75% of the US prison population. No big surprise there.
Atheists, on the other hand, make up about 10% of the US population... but they only make up 0.2% of the US prison population. Now, isn't THAT a surprise? That means that atheists are FIFTY (50) times LESS LIKELY to be incarcerated than Christians. Pretty strange, huh, for a group that has no god-given guiding moral principals?
I can think of only two possibilities that might reasonably be said to account for this disparity:
1. Atheists are of a higher ethical and moral caliber than Christians, and thus are less prone to do the same kinds of nasty things that land so many Christians in the slammer; OR,
2. Atheists are, overall, a lot smarter than Christians and thus, they are less likely to get caught in the course of their transgressions.
It's GOT to be one or the other... take your pick.
2006-09-14 08:40:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
Moral goodness does not exist independently of God, but issues directly from the very person of God himself.
I've written some about this at the link below under the section entitled the "Euthyphro Dilemma"
2006-09-14 08:52:14 · answer #2 · answered by Daniel 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well unlike you are morals are not gained by us being scared into them. we have no threat of hell to keep us from doing other things. morals are extremely independent of god, and if you have them only because of god, i feel sorry for you. a good person fells these within their heart. morals spawn from human thought. not from god. i get my morals from what i like and do not like, or what other people do not like. if they don't like it do not do it to them, they only exist for a brief period of time, so don't screw that up for them. don't make it any more brief. the "morals" you have are just something you follow because you are afraid of going to a hell that does not exist.
2006-09-14 08:47:35 · answer #3 · answered by мΛІ€ҢΛр™ 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-09-30 23:08:39 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im afraid to see it Sara, but their is no such think as 'Moral Goodness'.
What is 'right' to us in the early 21st Century, will be different to our childrens viewsof what is 'right', as morality is ultimatly subjective. Their is no ultimate 'Good', only the 'good' of the moment. Hence, their is no need for a 'God'
2006-09-14 08:43:05 · answer #5 · answered by thomas p 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Moral goodness exists because of earthly laws and the fear of punishment by the government for breaking them.
2006-09-14 08:41:13 · answer #6 · answered by bleedcoltsblue 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
there is a morality to just knowing that other people as human beings deserve the same good things you do, and recognizing that all individuals are responsible for making sure that everybody gets these good things.
2006-09-14 08:43:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, Adam had good morals, and it coninued through him up to Noah, and when the flood can, Noah and his family had good morals, and our parents, desendents of Noah, raised us with good morals.
2006-09-15 14:11:26 · answer #8 · answered by Henry 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Morality is imposed on us by society, if you choose to act outside of the mores (pronounced moray) of your society then that society will ostracize you in an effort to enforce moral values.
2006-09-14 08:42:10 · answer #9 · answered by corvuequis 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
our morals are brought through our emotions. one in particular being empathy (the ability to see through others eyes, feel others pain). you think to yourself i dont wanna get shot in the leg, why would i want to inflict that pain on someone else? other morals came from our parents, they teach us not to hit and bite, steal, they teach us to obey the rules. if your born and raised without any moral code or outside influence then you wont automatically know stealing is wrong. some things we deem wrong here, places elsewhere eam as ok. (we all know baby's dont know wrong from right...)
2006-09-14 08:44:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋