RE: Does religion corrupt morality?
September 5, 2015 at 4:07 am
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2015 at 4:51 am by downbeatplumb.
Edit Reason: Curse this new system it doth play tricks on a simple man.
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(September 4, 2015 at 2:15 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Bold emphasis is added:People can believe strongly without knowing the details of what their religion actually says, they only listen to the edited highlights dished out in the place they worship. It's the one who take it home and study it and then find out they shouldn't do this and they should oppress that are the problem. It's not about strength of belief as much as is its about depth of knowledge and acceptance of that knowledge of what the texts actually say.
(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?
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