(December 22, 2019 at 11:23 pm)possibletarian Wrote:(December 22, 2019 at 11:37 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: I don’t follow how religion is necessary for human beings to have values or feel sympathy. Life, on its own, should be more than enough.
Me neither,
Just because the majority are religious does not mean values which give people morals, valued emotions and lifestyles does not mean they are a product of religion, in fact i would say it's the other way around, religion was used as a means to give them authority.
If someone were to argue, on another thread, that religion is necessary for those good things, I hope you would argue against him.
On this thread the topic is different. The topic here is that since religion is NOT necessary for those good things, but has been involved with them for a long time, what are the best non-religious tools for us to talk about values and the good life? I think that the answer may be: the humanities.
