RE: Can anyone give me a example of how religous moral is superior to secular morality
September 7, 2013 at 7:24 pm
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2013 at 7:28 pm by bennyboy.)
(September 7, 2013 at 3:47 pm)genkaus Wrote: However, if they are cognitively aware of their worldview - which is often the result of committing to a religion or philosophy - then they would be aware when and where their behavior contradicts their deeply held moral beliefs. Here, it is not just fascination with moral figures from ancient philosophy - you see similar "emotional depth" with people associated with all sorts of philosophies. You have your liberals, anarchists, environmentalists, feminists and so on. All of them display what you'd call "religious dedication to their morality" - but the reason is not that their philosophy is a form of religion, the reason is that they know and understand what they believe in. Which is why they are much more aware of any contradiction to their beliefs that a layman and therefore their moral behavior is much more frequent.Okay, this is right. I accept the argument that members of those groups can potentially have the same very high level of emotional volition that leads either to high moralism or to extremism. I'd say the most emotional among each group share a certain quality-- that their ideology is expanded in importance beyand what is normal (or possily even sane) for others. That that extreme quality of morality, the willingness to sacrifice the self for the greater good, is not exclusively religious.
But I'd also say two more things:
-The level of delusion probably associated with a religion isn't a detriment to moral action.
-The level of delusion of other kinds of idealists approaches religious zeal, and is as dangerous (or just annoying) for similar reasons. In a sense, you could say that Wymyn, or liberty, or animal rights, or whatever, serve as a symbolic replacement for a God: they are an unassailable truth which must be conformed to no matter what other damage this might cause.