RE: Can anyone give me a example of how religous moral is superior to secular morality
September 6, 2013 at 9:20 pm
(This post was last modified: September 6, 2013 at 9:21 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
I'm not convinced that the system of morality is all that important. My secular moral position instructs me not to steal things, not to murder people, and not to cheat on my wife. The fact that these are all also part of Judeo-Christian morality doesn't trouble me in the least.
Put another way, although I believe moral behaviour to have evolved along with human beings, I'm not going to commit an immoral behaviour simply because it happens to be written down in some fatuous book cobbled together by a lot of semi-barbaric tribesmen.
That being said, I'm something of a fan of situational ethics. In another thread, I mentioned stealing food to feed a hungry child. We're I forced into such a positionn by circumstance, I would commit the theft without a backward glance. Similarly, although I value human life, I value some more than others and I honestly don't think I would hesitate to kill to protect someone I loved.
On the third point mentioned above, cheating on my wife is right out, since she once told me that if she ever caught me at it, she'd kill me in my sleep. Self-preservation trumps morality, every time.
Boru
Put another way, although I believe moral behaviour to have evolved along with human beings, I'm not going to commit an immoral behaviour simply because it happens to be written down in some fatuous book cobbled together by a lot of semi-barbaric tribesmen.
That being said, I'm something of a fan of situational ethics. In another thread, I mentioned stealing food to feed a hungry child. We're I forced into such a positionn by circumstance, I would commit the theft without a backward glance. Similarly, although I value human life, I value some more than others and I honestly don't think I would hesitate to kill to protect someone I loved.
On the third point mentioned above, cheating on my wife is right out, since she once told me that if she ever caught me at it, she'd kill me in my sleep. Self-preservation trumps morality, every time.
Boru
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