Religion does nothing to "keep people moral", it only attempts to dictate what morality is, and if fails miserably at that. People are people, regardless their religious beliefs. You will find both good and bad people holding any and every belief system. And often times people defy the morality suggested by their church in favor of self-gratification.
For instance, my dumbass cousin knocked up a Catholic girl when they were teenagers. I actually heard her say that she got pregnant because she was Catholic and couldn't use birth control. I remember thinking that I was pretty sure there was something in the rules about a 16 year old girl having premarital sex, too, but it didn't stop her from doing that one. People pick and choose which rules they will follow and which rules they will not. The saying, "It's easier to ask forgiveness and permission" applies doubly so to God, who isn't actually going to get in your face about it.
Not that religion doesn't do some good. There are some decent faith-based charities. But there are a lot more which actually work against people. Catholic hospitals put their religious doctrine over the health and safety of patients, for instance. They refuse to even give their patients warnings and information when that information might suggest a medical procedure they object to, such as an abortion for a woman who is miscarrying. In some cases they have been known to not even warn the miscarrying woman about the risks involved by allowing the miscarriage to continue naturally because, medically, the right thing to do was to abort the pregnancy to protect the health of the woman over a few hours of extra life for a fetus with no chance of survival past a couple of days.
Morality is subjective. A thousand churches have a thousand versions of it. If you don't like the morality of one you simply go to another which is more in line with your personal beliefs and preferences. And if you do violate their moral code, what are they going to do about it? Kick you out of their church? Again, simply go to another. Only laws make any real effort or have any real power to actually force people to live by a certain moral code. If we have them we don't need superstition to guide us, especially when that superstition says that if you do break the code, just ask for forgiveness and all is good. It literally takes a moment in most churches to atone for rape and murder. But then you still have to deal with the legal aspect, which is considerably more threatening in the immediate reality, magical afterlife notwithstanding. And the magical afterlife is completely binary. Reward or punishment. There is no middle ground. Take the 20 seconds to ask for forgiveness and you go from an eternity of punishment to an eternity of bliss.
For instance, my dumbass cousin knocked up a Catholic girl when they were teenagers. I actually heard her say that she got pregnant because she was Catholic and couldn't use birth control. I remember thinking that I was pretty sure there was something in the rules about a 16 year old girl having premarital sex, too, but it didn't stop her from doing that one. People pick and choose which rules they will follow and which rules they will not. The saying, "It's easier to ask forgiveness and permission" applies doubly so to God, who isn't actually going to get in your face about it.
Not that religion doesn't do some good. There are some decent faith-based charities. But there are a lot more which actually work against people. Catholic hospitals put their religious doctrine over the health and safety of patients, for instance. They refuse to even give their patients warnings and information when that information might suggest a medical procedure they object to, such as an abortion for a woman who is miscarrying. In some cases they have been known to not even warn the miscarrying woman about the risks involved by allowing the miscarriage to continue naturally because, medically, the right thing to do was to abort the pregnancy to protect the health of the woman over a few hours of extra life for a fetus with no chance of survival past a couple of days.
Morality is subjective. A thousand churches have a thousand versions of it. If you don't like the morality of one you simply go to another which is more in line with your personal beliefs and preferences. And if you do violate their moral code, what are they going to do about it? Kick you out of their church? Again, simply go to another. Only laws make any real effort or have any real power to actually force people to live by a certain moral code. If we have them we don't need superstition to guide us, especially when that superstition says that if you do break the code, just ask for forgiveness and all is good. It literally takes a moment in most churches to atone for rape and murder. But then you still have to deal with the legal aspect, which is considerably more threatening in the immediate reality, magical afterlife notwithstanding. And the magical afterlife is completely binary. Reward or punishment. There is no middle ground. Take the 20 seconds to ask for forgiveness and you go from an eternity of punishment to an eternity of bliss.
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