(April 2, 2015 at 7:07 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(April 2, 2015 at 6:50 pm)Lakul Wrote: TL;DR
And so, I VERY much want to have a conversation with my parents to get across this simple point:
Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you're told.
Religion is doing what you're told, regardless of what is right.
I would very much appreciate some sources covering objective/subjective morality and why god-given 'moral compasses' are disturbing and bullnyerk.
Ah yes, the moral argument.
Almost every debate I've ever been in with a theist, no matter how it starts, always seems to degrade into, "Well, where do you get your morality?". Usually this comes after every one of their previous arguments have been refuted.
I would suggest searching Youtube for Matt Dillahunty's talk called, "The Superiority of Secular Morality". There are a couple of versions of the talk.
Matt actually argues for an objective morality of sorts, based the objective reality that we all live in the same physical universe, inhabiting (more or less) the same bodies.
I think he makes a pretty strong argument.
Unfortunaetly for his his opinions, half the secular world in the 20th century proved secular morality has proven to have adopted the worst of religious immorality.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
