Is religion the best way so far to acquire and maintain moral focus?

Answer 1

i don't know, i wish i could just believe in something and finely find peace

Answer 2

No.
Your parents are the best way to acquire and maintain moral focus, but if they failed to teach you right from wrong as you were growing up then religion could help.

Answer 3

hello,

(ANS) Morality or ethics are nothing too do with religion!!. Yet given the way organized religions behave they would have you think they were and are the sole arbitors of ethics.

Organized religion's such as the catholic church have absurd moral stances and ethical points of view. In fact many moral ideas or points of view from the catholic or Christian church are completely ridiculous & out of date and belong back in medieval times.

Many of the churches ideas are non nonsensical and are based on irrational fears not based on current reality or practicality.

In my opinion the church & organized religions are the cause of many difficulties & problems, whilst NOT provide helpful solutions or answers. Such as HIV infection & AIDS in Africa where the church has made people wrongly believe that using a condom is bad for you!! how does this help save lives and prevent further infections & deaths, well frankly it doesn't. Its utterly stupid & dangerous religious non sense because of wrong headed thinking on a moral issue i.e. the dirty subject of sex yet again.

**Religion should be taken out of morality or ethics, separated like church and state should be.

Ivan

(yes!, I'm an atheist)

Answer 4

No. Sam Harris makes a strong argument against religion as a moral guide. Among other things, he says that most moral countries are atheistic countries, e.g., Sweden, who did not support the Iraq war, yet welcomes more Iraqi war refugees than the U.S.

Here's a youtube vid of a Harris lecture:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDuY1IdbvGU

Answer 5

Don't underestimate your power over others. The psychological shell, into which you often retreat, is the notion that you are, somehow, very small, insignificant and highly vulnerable. This idea protects you and stops you from getting ideas above your station - and therefore suffering the embarrassment of overreaching yourself. Yet, of course, it also stops you from fulfilling your true potential. Right now, if you lay down the law, nobody will dare challenge you. Or, at least, not for long!
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Answer 6

no no no no no. religion has many flaws, it has contradictions and any point put across against it is put down as "god/deity is all loving, all powerful and so can do as he wants or wanted us to think/ act that way".
you should look through ethical theories of philosophers such as utilitarianism, natural law, hedonic calculus, situation ethics and others but if you defo want to include religion use st thomas aquinas's views on ethics even though they base around christianity.
p.s i am not against or for religion but am an atheist but religion is not the best way to get morals and decision making right.
hope this helps

Answer 7

No, religion has nothing to do with morality....
Just look at the number of deaths and wars and caused by religious fundamentalist who seem to think there is something saintly and martyr-ish about murder & the mass slaughtering innocent people IF its done for the sake of your god. I think religion CAN corrupt people.

Answer 8

I believe it is a wonderful way but that the best way comes even before religion enters our consciousness -- from our parents who can be teaching this while we are still in diapers.

Answer 9

In this day and age, I think threat of doing time in jail pretty
much keeps things straight.....followed by everyone's inate
concept of The Golden Rule....a sort of guide book for living
in civilization.

Answer 10

You're joking! Right?

Please say you were joking.

Morality without sanity is not morality. It's a dangerous sham. Religion is insanity.

Answer 11

It can be the best way if your not obsessed with it. If you're too obsessed with it, then you will forget about the other things in life. (So focus on that, but not too much.)