RE: Can anyone give me a example of how religous moral is superior to secular morality
September 7, 2013 at 6:29 am
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2013 at 6:30 am by genkaus.)
(September 7, 2013 at 6:14 am)bennyboy Wrote: Purely by the emotivel strength, not at all by the validity. If I really thought the Flying Spaghetti Monster was going to reward me with an eternal buffet, that (almost for sure totally false) idea could lead to actual moral behavior.
That's not a claim that religious people overall are more moral; it just seems to me that some kind of symbology that you can visualize, combined with social conscience feelings like guilt, is more likely to inspire action than a less visualizable but maybe more truthful perspective.
I'd also say that I think for the same reasons that religious people are more likely to be mass murderers-- they have a confused sense of morality and a strong emotive impulse.
Still not fully getting your view on the issue. Are you saying that one criteria for superiority of a morality is how strong of an emotive impulse it can generate? With, ofcourse, the added qualification that not all strong emotive impulses are necessarily from morality - as is the case with many religious people?
