if there was no religion in the world where would we get our morals from?

Question

before religion came.people were killing other people.and this was the norm.and they just act like animlas.but since religion came(Judaism, Christianity and Islam).we now know killing is wrong.and that's just an example of how religiong changed people

before religion came.people were killing other people.and this was the norm.and they just act like animlas.but since religion came(Judaism, Christianity and Islam).we now know killing is wrong.and that's just an example of how religion changed people

but today's morals all came from religion.

like murder, stealing, lying, rape, and many others

Answer 1

from animals

Answer 2

I guess by your definition that morality comes from the three monotheistic religions perfectly explains why Asian people had morality for centuries before those religions even go close to their territory.

Morality evolves from a combination of the golden rule and philosophy. Our mind is able to simulate situations and their consequences. Even in ancestral times people where able to see that if they killed within their village they would be held accountable, same for stealing, raping, etc.

To believe that religion put morality into the world is a complete falsehood, and I dare you to come up with ANY real evidence besides "so people killed before religion and were animals... i'm totally pulling this out of my a-s-s." And what evidence do you have all morals came from religion?

And lets not even get into the fact that your "morality" led to the crusades and hatred/violence towards homosexuals.

Answer 3

Look at the Australian aborigines, the african tribesmen, the tribal groups in the Amazon jungle. They have/had a stone age culture and what you would call a primitive religion. But they were in touch with nature, what drives behaviour for them is survival. The "sins" you talked about have low survival value, having close knit family groups which cooperate and protect each other have high survival value. You see similar behavior in the animal kingdom. In fact the best survival skills fit in very closely with good theology. This is also why these religions survive it is because it gives its believers a survival advantage.
So to answer you question, without religion we would get our morals by the set of values that will make us most likely to survive and have healthy children of our own who will then also grow up to have children.

Answer 4

Morality isn't exclusively controlled by religion. I'm no follower of organized religion, but I have a sense of what is right and what is wrong, largely determined by my own family, who is not religious either.

Also, a bit that bothered me about your question: you seem to be implying that the three Abrahamic religions started morality. There were other religions before that, polytheistic religions. Are you saying that practitioners of those religions were uncivilized brutes? Honestly.

Answer 5

Evolutionary psychology suggests that morality developed from the need to perpetuate and protect the tribe. Religion is a way of protecting and preserving ethics and morality, but religion didn't invent either of them.

If there were no religion, people would still be moral. It is in our best interest as humans to be moral.

Answer 6

I can't speak for you, but I got mine from my family.

Religion claims a monopoly on morality and ethics because that's their business plan -- that's the lie they tell to keep their customers coming back for more guilt and sermonizing and of course, tithing.

The fact is that morality is a matter of instinct -- any child can figure out the right thing to do, and why. And ethics is a matter of maturity: The mature person knows that the right thing to do is always the hard thing to do.*

Answer 7

Religion is not the only place the morality exists. I am an atheist, and a moral person. Morality can be set by individuals, not be what is written in any book.

Answer 8

Without an Absolute Deity different people would make up their own moral laws.
I Cr 13;8a
10-17-6

Answer 9

I am not religious does that make me immoral? Morality evolves and is derived from society's basic standards. Too much wrong is done in the name of religion for it to be the basis of morality.

Answer 10

Our Creator doesn't MAKE anybody do anything. He just let's
us know how to make life easier for oursleves. Because if we
break the laws. It's not God who will come after us. It's MAN.
And man has no mercy. He will put you in prison until your
mind and body rots! And won't care.

Answer 11

Well, morals is an easier topic to speak about than type about, here are some strong examples of morals...

http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=irishdictator