(January 16, 2017 at 12:26 am)robvalue Wrote: If you are doing something because your religion says so, then that's not morality. That's being a mindless drone. You're not concerned with whether or not it's actually a good thing to do. It could just as easily be a bad thing, and you wouldn't know the difference.
If you are concerned with doing good things, this means you have to use this filter to decide which of your religious commandments are good commandments, and ignore the rest. This means you have a system of morality independent from your religion, and the religious commandments are redundant. You're only doing them if you'd do them anyway. Even if it turns out all the religious commandments are good, and you're assessing them, they would still be redundant if you'd follow them anyway.
Indeed blind obedience mixed with blind trust with a dash of cowardice or hedonism does not morality make
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.
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