Where does your moral compass stem from? There are many variables that determine what principles or values you deem right or wrong. These are issues we have fought with since the dawn of humanity. Religious principles dictate that without faith we will lose something essential to us in the moral sprit. It confirms that we will lose any purpose upon durable reason to treat each other with kindness. The Bible actually condemns individual thinking. “The Lord says that as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:9)
There are many passages in the Bible that profess to ‘morality’ only under strict guidance of God, and yet there were many examples of God’s word in accordance to occurrences that we now consider ‘immoral’. Theists cherry pick verses in the Bible to establish morality based on current ethical intuitions. “We use our extant morality to determine which bits of religious texts are those we should follow and which bits are those we should ignore. Religion uses the morality we already have to try and buttress its claims to deep truths.” (Ellerton, 2009)
Bible scriptures were written two thousand years ago and scientific discovery has risen only in the last few hundred years. New advances in the knowledge of our universe have given us explanation and reason for why we do things. Some find it far nobler to help someone purely out of concern for their suffering, than to help somebody because you think the creator of the universe wants you to do it or will reward you for doing it or punish you for doing it. “Godless morality offers a human-centered justification for contemporary morality.” (Holloway 1999)
In this blog, we will discuss, debate and defend what we call “The source of our moral fiber.” Do people that believe in a god, have a stronger moral ethic than those who do not have ‘faith’?
religion seems to be selfish... there iss no care anymore about our lands, environment and rape of anything and everything in way..religious people don't care about our childrens future...they smirk and laugh at global warming...all it's about anymore is money..and how much you will tithe to the churches... the bible also had horrific stories of rape and murder in the name of God... when you actually read the bible-it's pretty gruesome and parts of it are horrid... There is a lot of judgement, jealously, murder, hallucinations... It's actually pretty fascinating but totally out of this world...
ReplyDeleteThat verse in Isaiah doesn't condemn individual thought. It simply explains that God is a perfect being higher than ourselves. To believers, God takes higher priority than oneself. If it weren't for individual thought, than there would be no taste in society, no color, no expression.
ReplyDeleteGod is considered to be perfect in every way and human beings are far from perfect, we make mistakes all the time and a lot of the time for no reason at all. Following God isn't something to be forced on people, rather, it's simply a standard one can strive to live by. Check out my blog. Although you may find it disagreeable, you may find it interesting:
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"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says. He is always convinced that it says what he means."
ReplyDeleteGeorge Benard Shaw