If God's basis of morality is things that help us get along...?

Question

couldn't we assume these same morals would exists without God?

((inspired by JustCurious))

Am I correct when I translate your response to mean, "Good things would still be good, but without God to reward us, we wouldn't do them."?

Answer 1

If people ONLY do good out of fear or expectation of reward from God, then what motivates atheists to do good (and MANY atheists do good)?

Belief in God does not necessarily mean "Good actions"- look at the greedy tele-evangelists who rip off millions of hard working often poor people or the priests who rape children.

Non-belief in God does not mecessarily mean "Bad actions"- look at the thousands of doctors who save lives or serve around the world fighting poverty or protecting the environment and are not believers in God.

Obviously it is more complex and those that try to oversimplify it to an Us vs. Them are being petty, fearful and divisive. There needs to be more intelligent dialogue on the issue.

Answer 2

everybody, working example, is conscious that killing an harmless guy or woman is incorrect. everybody is conscious that assisting a drowning guy or woman is suited. No, easily, no longer everybody does and in the latter, each and every from time to time saving a guy or woman who's drowning isn't the suited undertaking. might you assert that if a youthful Hitler became drowning, that it truly is *precise* to save him understanding what he will do sooner or later? i hit upon YOUR ethical character very questionable if it truly is the case. If there is not any God, then how come there is morality? through fact the behaviours we go alongside with "solid" morality, which you would be able to talk, artwork extra advantageous for protecting societies mutually than what we tend to flow alongside with "undesirable" morality. severe homicide fee = extra vengeance re-murdering (actuality, immoral human beings try this) and you finally end up with much less human beings (actuality), for this reason a team with a distaste for homicide are gonna get greater, quicker, than the different communities who haven't any issue with it and actually only displace them by way of weight of numbers (actuality of elementary math).

Answer 3

It's untrue that people need religion to have an inner guide of morality. Many famous atheists in history, like Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Sagan, and many more have demonstrated that one can act responsibly and kindly without being told to by God. In fact, a Christian doing good deeds may mean less to me, because they are only acting in their own self interests to get to heaven.

Answer 4

Morals! What morals? With or without God my latest experience with people is one that makes morals seem like a history lesson.

Answer 5

Not sure I understand your question. I think if God didn't exist, there would be no reason not to be selfish in all your actions. Some morals would come about for simple self-preservation, but God's morals are based on denying yourself and self-sacrifice, something that wouldn't make sense in a world without God.

Answer 6

They could (the morals exist), but without the hope of life after death, there would be no insintive to live by any other code but the law of the jungle and the street.

Answer 7

Yes, inasmuch as morals exist at all. Morality is simply thought applied to feelings and has no intrinsic reality other than the area of the brain where it resides. Morality can be quite literally cut out of a person's brain.

Answer 8

They could "exist" subjectively, but not objectively; that is, we could pretend that they really existed, but they really wouldn't. If we're truly nothing but animals (however highly evolved we might be) or masses of biochemical reactions (however complex we may appear), then we have absolutely no moral duty to anyone else. We might pretend that we do, we might enter into agreements with others that claim that we do, we may act like we do, but in the end, since there's nothing outside of us that binds us to any standards, then there's nothing to prevent us from loosening ourselves from them just as easily.

Answer 9

My irs answer is Yes. Technically if God didn't exist we could probably have a morality. I mean the truth is, God does exist and we have plenty of immorality.

Still, there is one other factor. If God didn't exist . . neither would we.

Answer 10

Morals and ethics existed long before Christianity was invented. We will likely have a version of them long after it changes into something else.