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Morality without a deity.

Morality without a deity.

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@wolfgang59 said
And babies with ghastly deformities?
God created a very good world, and gave it to us to run. The results of our leadership not following His ways have lead to some horrible consequences. You should watch the videos.

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@ghost-of-a-duke said
Is this not a reasonable accounting for the existence of human morality? That in our earlier stages of development we grouped together out of necessity (protecting each other, working collectively to bring down a woolly mammoth etc.) And that this selfish motivation progressed into sociable behaviours, friendships, where man was no longer only concerned about his own ...[text shortened]... ciety was formed and a communal sense of right and wrong established. (Though not written in stone).
"What gave homo sapiens an edge over all other animals and turned us into masters of the planet was not so much our individual rationality as our unparalleled ability to think together in large groups. Most of our views are shaped by communal groupthink rather than individual rationality. We hold onto these views because of group loyalty." ~ Yuval Noah Harari

Religious traditions offer allegories that overlap with this explanation for the moral dimension of the human condition, and such traditions accomplish [or have accomplished] their mission without needing to be right about the supernatural claims they are founded on.