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Question: Is Morality possible without God/Religion!?
Can mankind have a sense of right and wrong without an omniscient being!? God laid down the Ten Commandments to the ancient Israelites/Jews, commandments that they were to abide to!. The major religions of today are modeled on Judaism i!.e!. the various denominations of Christianity, Islam!.
Before the "christianization" of the world, savage tribes engaged in horrendous pagan practices, practices that often involved human sacrifices, cannibalism, torture, slavery!.
Is morality possible for humans without using a frame of reference!? A frame of reference that is religion!? Without religion, does the concept of ethics merely become a subjective matter!?
In short: Is Morality possible without God/Religion!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Mankind can absolutely have morality without religion!. While morality can be derived from religion, most of it comes from other sources, such as: society, individual conscience, culture, logical evaluation, and past experiences!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Pagans had principles they lived by besides kill or be killed, or they would have died off!. They knew and practiced love before Abrahamic religions came on the scene!.
Truth comes from our connection with God, no matter what religion is practiced!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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!.
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Yes it is!. Don't forget that the christians bought tremendous suffering with them as well as good!. They bought disease to foreign lands to which the locals had no immunity to!. Thousands died!.They obliterated indigenous religions and much traditional wisdom was lost!.
They were responsible for the persecution and torture of millions of women who acted as healers and midwives for their villages!. The christian church ruled Europe with an Iron hand for centuries and was a force for greed,cruelty and fear!.
Have no illusions about the christians - they have much blood on their hands which will never wash clean!.Www@QuestionHome@Com