Is there a moral code for atheists, muslims, buddhist, etc...and what is it?

Question

Is it greater than this? Do not do unto others what you you don't wanna do unto you...
thanks=)

Answer 1

Every single religion get its own moral code. Even if atheism is not strictly speaking a religion, it has its own moral code.

As a buddhist - former roman catholic - it is based on the first sutra of Siddharta Gautama. To be short :

- do not lie
- do not drink alcool or use any drugs
- do not act in a bad way in your life on other people or animal
- do not use rude words
- try to respect life the most you can without threatening yourself uselessly

A buddhist cannot be a soldier, a butcher for example. War is never an answer for buddhist.

Answer 2

You know what, Muslims and Christians share the same basic moral codes.

A true practitioner of the Buddhist faith is a level of pious that most people cannot comprehend.

And Atheists follow the moral code of common decency.

There, you have it.

Answer 3

Morality is both innate and learned. We don't need religion to instill us with knowledge of right and wrong. Empathy is hard-wired in the brain. We're born knowing how to "feel as another" and put ourselves in someone else's shoes. All moral systems can be derived from this simple instinctual ability to empathize, and it's the basis for the "Golden Rule" that pre-dates Christianity and most of the worlds extant religions.

Religion can help to cultivate our moral reasoning so that we can apply it to more complex and abstract moral dilemmas. However, the idea that religion makes us into moral beings is becoming less and less tenable as our understanding of the developmental evolution of the brain and behavior advances.

Answer 4

The golden rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you", show up in some form or phrasing in nearly every belief system. You will find it not just in the various christian denominations but also in the jewish, hindu, buddist, muslim, and most pagan religions.

Answer 5

There is no one moral code for atheists, the moral code is custom made by the user! Albeit heavily influenced by parents.
It is much more than Do unto others and whatnot.

Answer 6

We all have the ability to tell right from wrong. It's ingrained. It's part of being human. It's when religion starts convincing people to go against that inherent moral code because their god says so that we start having real problems.

Answer 7

--A GOOD CONSCIENCE (if we allow it to work) can help anyone in making a moral decision:

(Romans 2:14-15) “14 For whenever people of the nations that do not have law do by nature the things of the law, these people, although not having law, are a law to themselves. 15 They are the very ones who demonstrate the matter of the law to be written in their hearts, while their conscience is bearing witness with them and, between their own thoughts, they are being accused or even excused. . .”

--SO INDEED there is a measure of morality in any of us whether we know laws of morality verbatim or not!

Answer 8

Basically the moral code for everybody should be humanity, which includes what you said as well as compassion, kindness, sensitivity, responsibility and bravery.

If everybody would bear that in mind I dare say the world would be a prettier place.

Answer 9

Actually most religions had that rule FIRST. I never understand how christians can snub their nose at religions more ancient than their own because they have a book that 50 different people wrote, a woman hating, paranoid delusional theologian edited when it was well known that opium was a very widely used drug back then.

Answer 10

We don't need a code, god, book, or list to tell us not to lie, steal, hurt, and kill people. We are naturally good and figured it out on our own.

FYI, "Do unto others . . . " was originally the "ethic of reciprocity". It was practiced centuries before Jesus or Christianity was invented.