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Do you mean by that, that whether someone's morality is corrupted by religion depends on whether the person really believes their professed religion or not?
Someone might profess to be religious, due to social pressures (such as to please a family member, or to avoid execution if one lives in Saudi Arabia, etc.), without believing religion at all. In such a case, since the person is not actually religious, their morality is not corrupted by their religion (since they really have no religion). But that is not a counterexample to the idea that religion corrupts morality, since the person is not really religious.
Your position appears to be that the more religious someone is, the more their morality will be corrupted by it. Is that what you mean to be saying? If not, what do you mean?
(September 4, 2015 at 2:05 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Can religion corrupt morality?
Yes.
Does it always?
No.
It depends on how seriously you take it. If live by all the bible laws you will be put in prison or a mental health unit.
If you live by all Islamic laws you end up living in a hell on earth like ISIS.
Do you mean by that, that whether someone's morality is corrupted by religion depends on whether the person really believes their professed religion or not?
Someone might profess to be religious, due to social pressures (such as to please a family member, or to avoid execution if one lives in Saudi Arabia, etc.), without believing religion at all. In such a case, since the person is not actually religious, their morality is not corrupted by their religion (since they really have no religion). But that is not a counterexample to the idea that religion corrupts morality, since the person is not really religious.
Your position appears to be that the more religious someone is, the more their morality will be corrupted by it. Is that what you mean to be saying? If not, what do you mean?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
