What's the relation between morality and religion ?

Answer 1

I would guess that religion besides being a early form of government or social rules, helped to codify morality. Morality can obviously exist without religion, and many religions disregard their own morality. Many people tend to think that religion is the source of morality, without understanding that there are different systems of morality or that their morality is not universal to this world.

Answer 2

There is no necessary connection. Morality is common sense, an intelligent insight into what enhances life most for all. It doesn't require religion. But as it's self-evident, and ultimately self-enforcing, it was colonized by many early religions (particularly Judaism etc), as a prop to support or argue for the religious beliefs which are not self-evident. So in fact, instead of religion being the support system for morality and ethics, it's the other way round - but few seem to see it. The sad result is that people believe morals and ethics require external prescription and "policing" instead of being internalized rationally - and go on believing in supernatural powers, in the absence of critical thought.

Answer 3

Religion is what you really believe in. There are lots of religions. My mother's morality is very high but she claims to have no religion. Morality is usually referring to someone who does right as in treating others right, not stealing, dressing in ways that would most likely not offend most people, not cussing or using language that is insulting or hurtful to others... I am considered someone with morality and religion. I believe in the Holy Bible and that Jesus is my savior... and I also am high on the morality scale. I know people that claim to have a strong religion that are very low on the morality scale.

Answer 4

Religion used to teach morality. Used to!

Answer 5

If somebody somewhat believes in, somewhat the Judeo-Christian ideals or upload Islam to that, they must be the comparable. If a individual believes what the Bible teaches and probable the Quran, they might lead a ethical existence, or ought to. yet some religious all of us is hypocrites and don't prepare what they pontificate. Others are religious and very ethical. some human beings believe in no God, any faith yet have a solid ethical code. the main religions all coach some code of morality, yet all of us who belongs does no longer no longer prepare, and there are cultural variations, too. human beings from one area of the worldwide ought to verify polygamy is optimal, for occasion and others see it as a foul sin or crime. Homosexuality is considered completely and unforgivably a sin by making use of a few Christians and not by making use of others.

Answer 6

There is none. In fact, the deities in some "holy" books are the most immoral characters.

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Why Christians Must Steal From Secular Morality:
http://www.caseagainstfaith.com/submissions/steal_morality.htm
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Christians must steal their moral rules from secular morality. They have no choice, as the Bible does not offer a moral system, it only offers a series of contradictory commands and a supposed threat of punishment in the "afterlife" for not following them - a punishment that is given equally to all violators - whatever the sin.

The Bible does nothing and can do nothing towards inculcating moral behavior on its own. Christians must steal from secular moral systems, and then merely graft their 'God threats' on top of this moral system. This is necessary. And the reason for this is simple: there is no morality in the Bible and there can be no morality in the Bible, because the Bible holds that 1) ALL 'sins' are equivalent (destroying any moral sense) AND 2) all moral behavior is immaterial, because works cannot save a person, AND finally all people are damned from birth.

In reality, Christians realize that some actions are more moral than others. They realize that moral actions exist in a hierarchy, and that rape is far worse than stealing a pencil. Yet the Bible holds that all 'sins' are equal, as all deserve the same punishment.

Christians also realize that humans can be moral agents... they expect moral behavior from others, and they view their own children as something to value. Yet the Bible holds that man is worthless, that he cannot be a moral agent, and that his sole salvation comes from grace. However, since Christians realize, implicitly, that all of these these points are obviously, prima facie false, they must steal from secular systems, that hold that 1) man obviously has a value 2) all 'sins' are obviously not equivalent and 3) a person cannot be held to be doing anything 'immoral' without intent.

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Origins of the 10 commandments:
http://www.atheistalliance.org/outreach/news-2002_spring.php
http://www.rationalrevolution.net/articles/ten_commandments.htm

Morality Without God:
http://www.atheists.org/Atheism/cohen.html

Ethics Without Gods:
http://www.atheists.org/Atheism/ethics.html

Morals Without Gods:
http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=sharris_26_3

Evolution of Altruism:
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~strone01/altruism.html

If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Be Only Natural:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/27/AR2007052701056.html?nav=rss_print/asection

The Subtle, Lethal Poison of Religion:
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2007/09/hitchens_1.html

How Can an Atheist Be Moral?
For Goodness Sake
http://www.ffrf.org/about/bybarker/goodness.php

Answer 7

If one were to examine the behavior of the self-proclaimed devout over the centuries, discovering what horrors have been committed in the name of religions (the Inquisition and the Crusades come immediately to mind, but so does terrorism in our current times), one would find difficulty in relating morality to religion in any way, despite the fact that theists tend to feel arrogantly that they are more moral than are nontheists, a fallacy, in my opinion.

Answer 8

Almost none. Morality is defined by the individual or by society. Religion only lists morals pertinent at the time of the creation of the religion or the doctrine.

Answer 9

The relationship is tenuous at best. When religion is good, it's certainly moral. But religion is no guarantee of morality, no matter what many people think; there's enough historical evidence to the contrary.

Peace to you.

Answer 10

morality is a personal set of rules you live by, religion is a way to teach a given set of morals.

now having said that, what are ethics and how do they differ from religion or morality?