RE: In UK atheists considred more moral than theists.
August 22, 2018 at 4:06 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2018 at 4:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 22, 2018 at 4:01 pm)Ray101aan Wrote:More emotional encouragement and motivation to enhances themselves compared to whom, or what? While we're on the subject, how does this account for people who are only passingly decent (or downright heinous) but also religious? Where did their emotional encouragement and motivation go?(August 22, 2018 at 2:44 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Does religion make a good man better, though? In what way, by what means? No quibbles about it making a bad man worse.
Well, it's not too surprising that people generally absorb and react to information in ways that are congruent with certain innate values or qualities that they already possess. A lot of theists feel that there are sound and effective moral principles in their religion for socializing, bonding, and loving others, and so for them there is more emotional encouragement and motivation to enhance themselves. It strengthens their desire to do good and help others.
Quote:But ultimately the moral values of a religion cannot possibly be regarded as having an actual categorical reality or existence all by itself, except until someone acts upon them and thereby causes it to become real, because morality is always subject dependent, and hence "good" and "evil" are both acts of creation.Well, the system is there and exists regardless of whether or not someone acts it out, it's not as if every single religious person is creating their morality anew. Don't get me wrong, that option is open..but it rubs against the whole "we've got this book and it's got laws" bit..don't you think? They're not creating that book or it's laws by acting on them.
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