RE: what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our morality?
May 12, 2014 at 6:17 am
We are an evolved social intelligent creature. As a part of that we have inherited certain traits as advantageous to us. These include empathy, reciprocation and a basic sense of fairness.
That is all we needed to develop morality at a cultural level. It is why we see massive commonality of certain elements (like provisions against murder, theft and so on) alongside hugely dissimilar approaches to our treatment of outsiders (and who we group as outsiders).
From one society to another outsiders have included women, various religious groups, the disabled, homosexuals, conquered peoples, slaves.......
God and religion have had an essential role in getting us to bypass our innate morality. People behave badly from time to time but to really get them going off the deep end there is nothing we have ever found as successful and reliable as religion.
Always remember its almost impossible to get people to fly planes into buildings without it.
That is all we needed to develop morality at a cultural level. It is why we see massive commonality of certain elements (like provisions against murder, theft and so on) alongside hugely dissimilar approaches to our treatment of outsiders (and who we group as outsiders).
From one society to another outsiders have included women, various religious groups, the disabled, homosexuals, conquered peoples, slaves.......
God and religion have had an essential role in getting us to bypass our innate morality. People behave badly from time to time but to really get them going off the deep end there is nothing we have ever found as successful and reliable as religion.
Always remember its almost impossible to get people to fly planes into buildings without it.
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