RE: Why does science always upstage God?
October 12, 2021 at 6:19 am
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2021 at 6:21 am by pocaracas.)
(October 12, 2021 at 5:59 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: IDK. Take something in your mind that you're convinced is immoral. If a majority voted -for- it..would anything about it's moral nature change so far as you can tell? I feel pretty confident that this has happened at some point about some thing in your life. That a bunch of folks decided on a uniquely bad idea, and their deciding so didn't actually convince you that it wasn't a uniquely bad idea.
*cough* Brexit *cough*
(October 12, 2021 at 5:56 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(October 12, 2021 at 5:36 am)pocaracas Wrote: Clearly, morality is subjective to the society.
What religious people seem to always forget is that humanity is a social species. It's like you guys can only think in terms of either the individual or the whole of mankind. No middle ground.
What is moral for a particular society can very well not be moral for another society. And that is fine.
This has the curious side effect that, from the point of view of an individual within any society, the societal morality has the appearance of being objective.
Morality is something that changes with the needs of the people and comes with compassion - like the abolition of slavery. Morality should be democratic.
While when it comes to Christianity, morality is supposed to be unchanged from what some men wrote thousands of years ago in the Bible and claimed to have heard it from God. Which clearly does not work.
I don't know if democratic is the best way to go. I'd say organically, which shows how slow it does change.