As a kid I used to read stories about talking animals going on various adventures, and though they are not realistic, they still taught some stuff like how stealing is bad, and how we should be wary of strangers e.t.c. The thing is, though these stories contained some good morals, it was up to me to understand them and figure out if and how they apply in my real life. I was able to do that because those books focused on the morals, instead of the existence of those talking animals. When it comes comes to religion, it solely focuses on glorifying the deity of that religion instead of the morals.
Morality is a human construct and they vary for each person, and they change over time. Something as unchanging as religion has no hope of guiding morality. And though religious books do seem to contain some moral teachings, it is left to us to interpret them and decide which of them is actually moral, which is a really hard thing to do when your brain is already exhausted from trying to find these moral values hidden among all the contradictory and immoral concepts also found in the same book.
At the end of it all, it is we who decide what is moral or immoral, what we will follow in our lives and what we will ignore, so why would we need religion? just to introduce us to the concept which we already know?
Morality is a human construct and they vary for each person, and they change over time. Something as unchanging as religion has no hope of guiding morality. And though religious books do seem to contain some moral teachings, it is left to us to interpret them and decide which of them is actually moral, which is a really hard thing to do when your brain is already exhausted from trying to find these moral values hidden among all the contradictory and immoral concepts also found in the same book.
At the end of it all, it is we who decide what is moral or immoral, what we will follow in our lives and what we will ignore, so why would we need religion? just to introduce us to the concept which we already know?
