Do religions have a monopoly on morals? Are morals a basic human instinct?

Question

Why do religions claim to be the teachers of good morals when their track records are so appalling, at least the wicked trio of Christian/Jewish/Muslim. Without exposure to the religions, do people grow with good morals?

Answer 1

No
Yes

Morals come from your parents and your conscience. "Most" people just instinctively know right from wrong, moral from immoral. One does not need religion to be a moral person.

Answer 2

People often say that morality comes from religion. I disagree. I think that humans understand basic morality within the fiber of their being - how hard is it to understand that you need to treat people nicely. I think that morality AND religion both came from the minds of humans.

Most of the commandments "given" to Moses had been codified earlier by Hammurabi as laws. Few would claim he was divinely inspired - just very practical. Humans as a group cannot function long without morality.

In fact, I think it takes years of exposure to religion to undo that basic human morality. Once you are taught, over and over, that humans are worthless and God can kill them whenever he wants, you lose a sense of the value of each and every life.

Answer 3

Without exposure to the religions, do people grow with good morals? Yes.

Answer 4

I guess you have to expalin your "track record" statement.

The "track record" on Christians is no less or greater than on anyone else.

Most politicans, you know, are lawyers and they are supposed to be representatives of the court and yet they lie, cheat and steal.

The next thing you have to understand is that everyday "christains" are pretty lax and untrained. And some of the rules of some of the sects make it easy for them to "think they can get away with this and that."

If morals were a basic human instinct, we wouldn't need police, prisons and courts.

Answer 5

it truly is unfaithful. really stepped ahead religions have really stepped ahead moral codes that are imbedded into the way of existence. Hindus do not enable rampant sex, neither do the Jewish, Muslims, Christians or Buddhists. those are printed on the way of existence. interior the U. S. sturdy fundamentalist Christian Values, resembling individuals that still exist in a lot of Muslim countries, were integrated into the regulations. there became very constrained grounds for divorce, frequently adultery as Jesus allowed. sex outdoors of marriage (fornication) became outlawed (yet under no circumstances enforced a lot). Non-toddler making sex became outlawed (so referred to as "unnatural" acts, which protected homosexuality and "unnatural" heterosexuality acts). through 1975 basically about all the states dropped those regulations because the liberalization of sexuality (the sexual revolution of the Sixties all started through the Hippie and Femminist moves, each and each and every with their own separate agendas). The age of sexual consent has dropped from 18 interior the year 1900 to as low as 14 interior the year 2000 Now, 14 year previous women and decide to have sex on call for, their father and mom needs regardless of the indisputable fact that. it truly is how moral codes replace at the same time as faith is taken out of the equation. that's how they develop into self reliant of religion. We watch a turn round in Iran at the same time as it went from the Shaw and liberalism decrease back to the fundamentalism of Khomeni

Answer 6

I don`t think it is religion who teaches you moral, it is your family who should do it, but i also think we`ve been created with an instict ....it is like a seed in every human that grows if we feed it and could be lost if we don`t work on it.....religions have less to do with morals than we think......and there`s a big difference between morals and false morals.........

Answer 7

Sin and reason

Morality is not the monopoly of religion. In fact, morality cannot be taught through religion because religion is the art of both self-deception and deception.

In religious morality sin is the act of disobeying God. Did God know that humans would disobey him? (First contradiction of religious morality). Do animals sin when they kill each others or do they just obey God? (Second contradiction) Is sin possible only for conceptual beings who can understand the difference between what is for life and what is against life? Why did God give conceptual beings free will and thus allow them the choice of disobeying him? (Third contradiction)

Morality based on religion turns logic inside out. That's why people say God operates in mysterious ways. If a human operated like that, it would be mentally deranged.

In reason-based morality, sin is just another word for logical contradiction. It is by means of a logical contradiction that it is possible to justify any act which violates the life or property of another person.

For example, if I follow the principle that I can live, but you cannot, force and violence are necessary, reason is powerless. That's a violation or sin. If I say, I must have what belongs to you, and you must give it to me by force, it's another violation. If I tell you something that is not true, I gain by violating your trust in me, and that's another violation of reason. To be immoral, one must willingly gain from violating life, property, or trust of others. How do we distinguish a moral from an immoral man? We reason: if he lies to us he violates our trust; if he steals from us, he gains at our expense; if he injures us, he violates our life.

Morality is based on logical reasoning because logical reasoning is required for distinguishing what is true from what is false. Religious morality uses the principle of deception to get people to follow rules without the use of reason. It's like the child who wants to know the answers of a math problem without understanding how that answer was derived. What good is to know the answer to a multiplication if one cannot multiply? What good is to give someone a license to practice surgery, if he had never attended medical school?

Answer 8

I dare not call religions as 'trio of wicked Christian/Jewish/Muslim.' They are highest schools of morality among other religions. It is thanks to this divine education, we learn to know the One True God, His love, our relations with Him and with His creation. Otherwise, we would live unintelligently like other creatures.

Answer 9

I've seen many good morals in philosophy without any ties to religion. I've seen many moral people who did not believe in God and many immoral people who did.

Answer 10

Most religions are baisically correct in their teaching. True Muslims do not kill non Muslims. And Christians/Jews/Muslims made mistakes in the past.... Anyway,

I think you just have to decide for yourself what are the moral things to do?? I do not blindly follow my religion because I think that anything humanly organized, man made, will never be perfect! So I usually just pray to God, and He guides me and helps me.