Does religion corrupt morality?

[FatAndFaithless]

Don't yall believe morality is subjective anyway? So when ask if religion corrupts morality, wtw, who's what morality are you referring to, if morality just depends on whatever each person thinks is moral?

oof..rough first sentence, nice lady...


'morality' is a pretty damn vague term..  A moral system is by definition based on certain parameters.  Those parameters can be something like...'what's outlined in x holy book', 'whatever x person says', 'whatever x culture values', 'whatever promotes human wellbeing and health', etc.  Every moral system necessarily has presuppositions.  The common use of 'subjective morality' is usually a cheap shot that means something like 'any opinion on morality is as good as any other opinion on morality, so you have no basis of saying anything is right or wrong', sometimes leading into the evangelical favorite of pedophilia or Nazis or something...


But no, there is no 'y'all' when it comes to morality.  The mere fact that cultures, nations, and individuals have different moral systems pretty much objectively demonstrates that there ARE different moral systems.    

If you're asking 'do you think there is an absolute, objective, externally-defined code of morality' then no, i don't think that, because I don't think there's anything external to our reality or our human race.  I'm going to assume (and correct me if I'm wrong) that you're going use Catholic catechism/the bible/jesus as some basis of morality....but there are other people and cultures and religions that also uses those bases...and arrive at different conclusions...  So I don't know how you can even posit something like  objective morality at all, unless you really just say 'everyone else has got it wrong'.