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’?
