RE: Developing systems of morality, outside of religious influence.
March 8, 2018 at 11:22 am
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2018 at 11:25 am by robvalue.)
I don't want to assume too much about you, but I would wager that you never followed what the bible told you to do anyway. Almost all religious people follow what they want the book to say, or what other people tell them it says. They do what they want to do anyway, then find ways that the book supports it. They then make rationalisations as to why they ignore the rest. I know the bible well, and it's absolutely horrifying. If you followed it, you'd be dead or in jail very quickly.
So upon leaving religion, most people find that they were acting in a "nice" way (assuming they were before) because it's how they naturally want to act, not because they needed their religion to tell them so. The not so nice ones use their religion as a shield to support their bigotry without having to explain it. Life isn't the game religion makes it out to be, scoring Jesus points. The inmates are running the asylum, and they can either make life nice for each other, or make everything unpleasant. I'd prefer the former.
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So upon leaving religion, most people find that they were acting in a "nice" way (assuming they were before) because it's how they naturally want to act, not because they needed their religion to tell them so. The not so nice ones use their religion as a shield to support their bigotry without having to explain it. Life isn't the game religion makes it out to be, scoring Jesus points. The inmates are running the asylum, and they can either make life nice for each other, or make everything unpleasant. I'd prefer the former.
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