(February 19, 2021 at 12:03 pm)Five Wrote: I was thinking about it recently, trying to section out why certain people join certain religions or believe in certain Gods. And I was thinking about the personal morality people accept and define for themselves.You're assuming that a god can't be something evil. Just had to blurt that out.
Why join one religion versus another? I think it's because you personally don't agree with those other religions definition of God and morality. What if they were true? Is truth only the commandments you would reasonably tolerate from a God? Even within your own accepted religion, there are things that "God" could ask you to do that you would tell him "no" instead of obeying. If God pulled an Abraham and Isaac on you, would you do as he asked and kill your child?
If you said "yes" to that question...that's a different discussion. But if you said no, how can faith be defined as anything other than your own subjective morality?
Would it change things if God himself came down and told you to do stuff directly? Could you trust a supernatural being that asked you to do something that you felt was morally wrong? What proof would you need to know that this supernatural visitor was God and not something evil?
Religious faith is defined as a relative morality, not a subjective one. A set of beliefs that unite a people, not just those things individual subjects communicate as moral intuitions. People are very unlikely to hold a genuinely subjective morality - that level of individualism is rare.
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