What are the ethics and morality involved in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism?

Question

Yes this is homework and yes I have spent all day researching. Its just hard to find anything that doesn't say "if your not a christian then f*ck you" or "Muslims have no morals." Excuse my language but this is frustrating. Please do help!

Answer 1

OK...First get off the Internet and go to the Library. Three books or books on these books : The Bible, The Talmud, and the Koran. Find translations on these books or studies done on these books. If I had a few years I would tell you myself, but that would entail me going to the library myself. The Internet is great for general info, but you HAVE to get real information from real research. Good Luck!

Answer 2

It is possible but to follow a moral law you need to establish what it is you consider right and wrong. Without a standard the moral compass has no true North. It becomes situational ethics. Those shift with each situation. If each person establishes their own moral law you eventually have a situation where the majority say that whatever pleases them is their own guide. There are very moral people outside of religion, some who are quite a bit better than some inside the church. I would hazard a guess though that their moral are something that coincide with historical social morals and most of those (not all) were based on a religious tradition. It would be an interesting exercise to take a group of people who don't believe in anything spiritually and see what concensus they would come up with for a social moral law. That is said with all respect. I am genuinely curious. Good question.

Answer 3

Judaism Ethics And Morality

Answer 4

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What are the ethics and morality involved in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism?
Yes this is homework and yes I have spent all day researching. Its just hard to find anything that doesn't say "if your not a christian then f*ck you" or "Muslims have no morals." Excuse my language but this is frustrating. Please do help!

Answer 5

I can appreciate your difficulties. Unfortunately, the topic is far too broad for a useful exposition in this forum. I'll have to limit myself to noting that Islam has one overarching principle: to believe in Allah, and carry out the dictates of Allah as written in the Qur'an. These cover many civil issues (such as inheritance rules) as well as theological ones.

Answer 6

Muslims have to respect their parents and chldren.
They have to teach their children to follow the
paths of prophet Mohammed (sallal lahu alaihi walihi wasallam) and the paths of righteousness and islam.
The greatest sin in islam is not believing in Allah.
Muslim cannot drink 'cause it makes them do bad
stuff like rape, or other. And muslim cannot have sex
before marriage. In marriage, the groom gives
dowry in silver. They have to pray 5 x a day and
if they can afford it, they have pay homage to the
mecca once in thier lifetim atleat. They also have to
follow the 5 pillars in islam.

Answer 7

I can't answer for Islam and Christianity, but if you want to know about Jewish morality, you can start by browsing aish.com, chabad.org, and askmoses.com. Ask Moses also has a live Ask The Rabbi chatroom, so you can ask directly.

Answer 8

Christianity and Judaism both believe that stealing, murder, rape and cursing the name of the lord is wrong.

Islam believes it is wrong to steal from other Muslims but if you steal from someone who is not a Muslim, then it's ok.

Christianity and Judaism on the other hand are against stealing from anyone (including Muslims).

Answer 9

In the end all three boil down to "I am God and this is what I want." Even the teachings of Jesus, which do not sound like that still boil down to devotion to God first and love and compassion for all his children next.

You really need to go to a library, nothing will substitute for this.

One thing you need to look up is comparative morals. All religions have some variation of the Golden Rule or "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Some are actually much better than the Christian version.

In the academic research on morality, religion seems to hold a function of determining which group you are in. If you kill someone in your group then that is evil, but if they are out of your group then it can be acceptable.

If you are interested in critiques then I recommend "The God Delusion." It discusses quite frankly the three belief systems as well as Buddhism and the other major religions. It also is a quick read overall.

I recommend it, even though it is an atheist text, because one's enemies generally are better informed about a system of beliefs than the people who hold them. I used to be Christian and when I was I read atheist sites because they were usually of a higher quality than the Christian, Jewish, or Islamic sites. When I became a scientist, I realized I had been wrong in my religious beliefs.

I am not opposed to Christianity, but I do think it is important to understand what it is.

The Internet is a poor source for this. Libraries are great. I would also recommend looking at traditional Catholic, Jewish and Muslim books. There are tens of thousands of Protestant denominations all with their own perspective and none of them agreeing on much. It would be too hard from an academic perspective for a young student out of their discipline to research the Protestant viewpoints well unless guided by pastors of the major groups in that search.

Additionally, Catholic statements of ethics are available online. I recommend, for example, reading Evangelium Vitae by His Holiness John Paul II. It will give you a very good view of Catholic moral thinking. http://www.vatican.va/edocs/ENG0141/_INDEX.HTM

I do not know equivalent writings on Jewish morality online. The Midrash and the Talmud probably exist somewhere online but I have never found them. I have found them in libraries in English, but never online.

The Quran is available online, but I cannot attest to the quality of the translations. Further, I do not know if you can get a copy of Sharia.

The differences are quite important at times.

For example, it is forbidden under Sharia to hold an employer responsible for the actions of an employee. Under English law and the Civil Law the acts of an employee are the acts of the master, generally.

So, if I ordered you to kill someone, under Islamic law only you would be responsible if you did kill that person, because I cannot make you sin. Under English Law and the Civil Law, which are the primary legal systems in Christian countries I would be just as responsible, even more so in some cases.

This has had a bad impact on Islamic economies. In the United States, if the CEO orders others to engage in criminal conduct that manager will go to jail and the company and the CEO held liable. So if you build a power plant for me and break the contract, the contractor can be sued and will lose in Christian countries. In Islamic countries, the workers who followed the orders will go to jail and be personally liable. However since they are poor, they will not reasonably be able to repay the price of an entire power plant.

So people are hesitant to invest money in Islamic countries, keeping them poor, because of the low level of accountability for the powerful.

Likewise, Islamic countries forbid the charging of interest, that is taking money away from your brothers and sisters for you lending money that was just going to lay around anyway. It is a sin to do such a thing when you should give freely. They view Christians and Jews, in this respect, as deeply greedy and sinful.

The differences are subtle but important.

Answer 10

All three are amoral. Their judgment of good and bad behaviour is based on 'sin', which means to disobey the wishes of a deity. So, they don't have moral right and moral wrong (which are based on conscience) but obedience and disobedience (which are based on self-interest).

Atheism is the only major worldview or position that allows for true morality based on conscience.