(May 10, 2019 at 12:48 pm)Smaug Wrote: What really disturbs me is Religion's constant claims for morality. Not only that moral behaviour existed before modern man but also to me morality is something humans earned at a very high price. Saying that God handed down moral principles is an insult against the memory of all those who fought, suffered and lost their lives so our society could become a better place.
Most people can intuit an absolute objective evil. Humans haven't earned morality, they've used it (justly and unjustly) for position and poorly structure the chaos around us into some form of stable society.
Let me ask you this, if dominance hierarchies existed long before there were trees in other species then dominance hierarchies in societies aren't man made. They could be an evolved trait, an emergent trait, inherited trait, evolutionary trait.. and many more reasons. What makes you think morality didn't exist before the creation of trees as well? What if these things we think, are human constructs are just our collective overall simplification for something long before we existed. As morality is an agent on consciousness, as we see it, and if morality existed axiomatically (as certain hierarchical structures and universal constants) why wouldn't there be an objective morality, at least to humanity, as a whole?
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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