RE: As a nonreligious person, where do you get your moral guidance?
October 16, 2022 at 11:34 am
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2022 at 11:39 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 15, 2022 at 10:35 pm)Belacqua Wrote: But history didn't start with my parents. If we're of European descent, the culture we live in was shaped, like it or not, by Christianity. We may have shed the religious justifications, but a lot of our morality is directly descended from religion.
History didn't start with the christians, either - and by the same rule like it or not religious moralities also came from somewhere or somewhen or someone before. They don't issue forth fully formed out of the stories themselves..rather, the other way around. Such that it makes little sense to say that human morality "comes from religion" when religion and morality are similar phenomena that share the same source, themselves, in human beings...and, were we to order the two in a chain of dependence, it's religion that depends on morality, and not morality that depends on religion.
A religious belief must be a moral belief, whereas a moral belief has no such requirement.
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