Morality

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some condensing and reworking points

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"In the western world, the classic example used is the set of Ten Commandments in chapter twenty of Exodus from the Holy Bible. This list, passed in the story down from the God of the Hebrews to Moses, extols the well known rules by which the God expected his people to live. They are the so-called golden rules that all followers of the religion (Judaism or Christianity) and cover murder to stealing (King James Version Bible Ex. 20). "- removed for space.. list severeal religions and examples.. do your research

"They foster good-will towards all, and could be taken, when viewed apart from much of the rest of the bible, as excellent behavior guidelines for a society."- superflous

"In Leviticus, hand in hand with commandments to feed the poor and the famous “love thy neighbour as thyself” are passages which condone the execution of homosexuals, adulterers, and men who engage in sexual intercourse with their menstruating wives (King James Version Bible, Lev. 13.46, 19.10, 19.18, 20.10, 20.13, 23.22)" - could be a citation in itself

the third paragraph down to "(Jelinek, 1-22). " could be incorperated into the above paragraph for better information arrangement and paragraph structure.

tying the end of the third to the forth by adding something like " ;namely, human evolution." would be a good tie in

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I think a lot of people have a misconception of Christianity. Modern Non-denominational Christianity seperates itself from the other religions by actually not going along with the "reward/ punishment system". We are born evil and can only recieve salvation through Christ. This does signify that you are recieving something, however should not be confused with other religions belief that doing good works earns you a spot in heaven and doing bad things land you in hell.

As far as what I feel contributes to the founding of personal morals :
-Evolution of animalistic tendencies for survival
-evolution of communal necessity of sexual selection
-altruism
-utilitariansim
-the categorical imperative
-peer influence of reasoning individuals
But you're speaking of the foundation of morality, so it key that you don't include religion as an origin.

Statements like "It is indeed interesting that some people find it necessary to ascribe their morals to a God..." are refercing current "people" and their morality not the foundation. While religion I don't feel is a contributing factor to the origins I feel it emhatically is a factor in the development of morality over time.