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Remember me. Sign In. Forgotten password. Invalid email address! Back to Login. Summer Program Reviews College Reviews. Program Links Program Reviews. Can Morality Exist Without Religion? September 18, More by this author. View profile. I like this 0. Vote this 0. Post a comment. Add to favorites. Different branches of Christianity, and indeed every different person, take some things from it and leave others.
Many things in the Bible are unacceptable to modern Christians. Because they do not sit right with contemporary moral sensibilities. In the case of the magic above, there is a moral behaviour advocated by the Bible that gets rejected by most people.
They ignore that part of the moral teachings of the Bible. Instead, they tend to accept those moral teachings of the Bible that feel right to them. This happens all the time, and a good thing too. Clergy interprets scripture, and cultural practices and beliefs are passed down, many of which have little or nothing to do with the Bible, like the Catholic idea of having fish instead of meat on Friday a cultural tradition never mentioned in the Bible at all.
Basically, people take or leave religious morality according to some internal moral compass they already have. They might even choose which church to go to, according to how well the teachings of that church match up with what they feel is right or wrong. In the modern Western world, some people feel free to choose the religion that feels right to them. Results show something completely different. When asked to justify why some cases are permissible and others forbidden, subjects are either clueless or offer explanations that can not account for the differences in play.
Importantly, those with a religious background are as clueless or incoherent as atheists. These studies begin to provide empirical support for the idea that like other psychological faculties of the mind, including language and mathematics, we are endowed with a moral faculty that guides our intuitive judgments of right and wrong, interacting in interesting ways with the local culture.
These intuitions reflect the outcome of millions of years in which our ancestors have lived as social mammals, and are part of our common inheritance, as much as our opposable thumbs are. These facts are incompatible with the story of divine creation. Our evolved intuitions do not necessarily give us the right or consistent answers to moral dilemmas. What was good for our ancestors may not be good for human beings as a whole today, let alone for our planet and all the other beings living on it.
But insights into the changing moral landscape [e. In this respect, it is important for us to be aware of the universal set of moral intuitions so that we can reflect on them and, if we choose, act contrary to them. We can do this without blasphemy, because it is our own nature, not God, that is the source of our species morality. Hopefully, governments that equate morality with religion are listening.
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