26 Mar '15 16:09>
I think it safe to say morality from biblical sources is somewhat like morality from other religions like Islam or Bahai or hindu or Buddhism.
The thing any single religion says is their religion is THE correct religion.
So all of these religions can't be right, some of them have to be man made and only YOUR religion is true.
This kind of thinking can be applied to ALL of these religions, from their viewpoint, a DEITY set up the rules of morality and so forth.
Considering they all say stuff like don't kill, don't steal, leave your buddy's wife alone, honor your mom and dad, etc., it seems if you accept only YOUR religion as having been inspired by a deity, how come all the OTHER religions have similar morality rules?
Could it somehow be that NONE of them were inspired by a deity but simply most human cultures, being composed of more or less intelligent people, comes up with similar mores and such and therefore they ALL just made up these religions out of thin air?
The thing that gripes me about the religious set is the idea that Atheists are somehow floundering around unable to come up with their own moral code.
I think it is just the opposite. Since there are hundreds of religions around the world, each one thinking THEIRS is THE religion, THEY are the ones floundering around trying to come up with moral codes.
It never seems to dawn on people that humans are quite capable of figuring out it is not nice to kill your grandma or steal from your brother or sister and by extension don't steal from anyone.
Why is that such a huge deal that humans can't work that out on their own without the need for a deity to tell them.
It seems to me to denigrate human intelligence to REQUIRE a deity to tell us what is good and what is not.
The thing any single religion says is their religion is THE correct religion.
So all of these religions can't be right, some of them have to be man made and only YOUR religion is true.
This kind of thinking can be applied to ALL of these religions, from their viewpoint, a DEITY set up the rules of morality and so forth.
Considering they all say stuff like don't kill, don't steal, leave your buddy's wife alone, honor your mom and dad, etc., it seems if you accept only YOUR religion as having been inspired by a deity, how come all the OTHER religions have similar morality rules?
Could it somehow be that NONE of them were inspired by a deity but simply most human cultures, being composed of more or less intelligent people, comes up with similar mores and such and therefore they ALL just made up these religions out of thin air?
The thing that gripes me about the religious set is the idea that Atheists are somehow floundering around unable to come up with their own moral code.
I think it is just the opposite. Since there are hundreds of religions around the world, each one thinking THEIRS is THE religion, THEY are the ones floundering around trying to come up with moral codes.
It never seems to dawn on people that humans are quite capable of figuring out it is not nice to kill your grandma or steal from your brother or sister and by extension don't steal from anyone.
Why is that such a huge deal that humans can't work that out on their own without the need for a deity to tell them.
It seems to me to denigrate human intelligence to REQUIRE a deity to tell us what is good and what is not.