RE: pop morality
January 27, 2016 at 4:32 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2016 at 4:33 pm by drfuzzy.)
(January 27, 2016 at 3:25 pm)Jenny A Wrote:
Far from behaving better when applying god's standard, people use god's standard to justify their lack of empathy for others. Thus, the differing standards for: the chosen people versus all other people; my gender versus other genders; people of my faith versus people of other faiths; people of different incomes versus people of my income and so on. Selfish people have used god's standard to justify everything from socialism (easily justified by Jesus's teachings) to capitalism (easily justified based on god's obvious preference).
Remember recent studies (Nov. 2015) in empathetic behaviors in religious vs. non-religious children? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/no...kids-study
A quote from this report: "The findings “robustly demonstrate that children from households identifying as either of the two major world religions (Christianity and Islam) were less altruistic than children from non-religious households”.
Older children, usually those with a longer exposure to religion, “exhibit[ed] the greatest negative relations”.
The study also found that “religiosity affects children’s punitive tendencies”. Children from religious households “frequently appear to be more judgmental of others’ actions”, it said."
In a nutshell, if you're raised to think you have gawd on your side, are following the ultimate set of moral rules, then the people who don't follow your gawd's rules are "those evil people over there". Anyone who doesn't agree with you needs to be punished. Converted, maybe. You turn into a judgmental little shit who thinks they are better than the non-humans who don't agree with you.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein