"Morality is doing what is right no matter what you are told.
Religion is doing what you are told no matter what is right."
2006-10-06 19:25:16 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
depends on the religion.
2006-10-06 19:47:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Morality is a social construct.
Religion is a social construct.
They can differ.
Than can agree.
I think the saying is cute. Simple, but cute.
I think the saying is sometimes right.
I think the saying is sometimes wrong.
Morality is constantly changing as society changes.
Morality is not the absolute that you seem to imply.
It would be nice if it were.
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2006-10-07 02:30:37 · answer #2 · answered by Ignoramus 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
sorry i disagree. I agree with the morality part but. religion is not doing what you are told. it is doing what you believe in.
it is putting your faith in a higher power.
although I can see your point about some religions doing what your are told, the mistake was in lumping all religions together.
2006-10-07 02:31:50 · answer #3 · answered by Hannah's Grandpa 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I suggest you make a distinction between morality and ethics. it is ethics that is universal not morality.Similarly you should also distinguish between religion and ritual.Furthermore , you should give your own take on the quote and then ask others to say something.
2006-10-07 02:31:33 · answer #4 · answered by Rajesh Kochhar 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As far as your 2nd statement is concerned, "Religion is doing what you are told no matter what is right", I would say I do agree with that statement.
Religion is do's and don'ts. It is thou shalts and thou shalt not. It is you ought and you ought not.It's just a giant system of rules.
Christianity is not a religion. It's a personal relationship with a risen savior, namely, Jesus Christ. What ever do's and don't there are in christianity, you do them not because you have to but because you want to. We love Christ, therefore we obey Him because He first loved us.
As far as your first statement, "Morality is doing what is right no matter what you are told", I also think that is true. The problem is, who decides what is right and wrong? With out God there is no such thing as morality.
If there is no God then there are no absolutes. If there are no absolutes then there is no such thing as right and wrong. Right and wrong are just whatever the culture defines them to be in a Godless society. Our christian culture says you're supposed to love your neighbor. Some cultures down in the amazon say you're suppose to eat your neighbor. A government can define right and wrong just by man made law that is not based upon anything higher. But man has a natural bent toward evil. It's inherent in him. If you don't agree with that, your argument is not with me but with 6000 years of human history. Being bent toward evil he will always water down those laws because those laws are not based upon anything but the governments opinion. It's as if God has established those laws and man always wants to be free to live in any licentious manner he pleases.. Eventually, you come to one of two end results: 1)the morality keeps getting watered down and watered down until you have anarchy in your nation because no one has any morals. 2)You need more and more force to enforce those man made opinions(laws) that are not based upon anything ultimate(God) and pretty soon you have a totalitarian government. So you always end up with one of two end results.....either you end up with anarchy or a police state.
Francis Schaeffer, that great christian philosopher, used to say that liberals always bring on the thing they hate most......totalitarianism. What he meant was that they keep whittling down the morality in a nation until the only way you can keep order is with storm troops and a gestapo.
Mao Zedong understood this perfectly well. He said " the only real morality is at the point of a bayonette. In his society that was true. He was a communist and his state was atheistic. An atheistic state doesn't allow for a God. As I said at the beginning....if there is no God there are no absolutes......if there are no absolutes there is no such thing as right and wrong ........if there is no such thing as right and wrong then sooner or later you will need bayonettes to keep the peace.
So, yes I agree with both statements.
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2006-10-07 03:18:40 · answer #5 · answered by upsman 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No I don't agree. Religion means different things to different people. Take Budhists for example; you don't have to do what you're told you are in fact required to think about what you're told and then act, Atheism is another example and yes atheism is a religion.
2006-10-07 02:34:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sounds about right to me.
Lots of christians blandly accept tales of God sending bears to kill taunting children and Jesus called a woman who came to him to ask for help for her daughter a 'dog' (which was a reviled animal) as justified acts of righteousness just because it's God. Other major religions have similiar examples.
2006-10-07 02:47:34 · answer #7 · answered by February Rain 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ask Martin Luther or Martin Luther King.
2006-10-07 02:29:45 · answer #8 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
no I do not agree. with out religion people are makeing their own set of morals I think those most except come from the tencomandments ( God). worship God opnly you may reject but do not kill, steal or lie all come from the bible. do not lust after what is not yours I think has been lost to many.
2006-10-07 02:37:15 · answer #9 · answered by Mim 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think it's false. Religion isn't about doing what you're told... that's more what society/conformity is. Religion is about looking either to God (If that's your religion) or within (If that's your religion) to help understand what's right.
2006-10-07 02:29:02 · answer #10 · answered by Kren777 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Sure, I 100% agree.
2006-10-07 03:28:42 · answer #11 · answered by Mohammed R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋