Religion teaches morality

[Med911]

Re: Religion teaches morality

@ajazali

Today some people argue that there are thousands of people who act morally and ethically and that is not part religious practices.** I believe that religion taught humankind morality **so they act morally and ethically even today. Today you may claim that people act morally and ethically without being religious but all this is because religion has/had been teaching human being morality for years.

Before you claim that morality was/is possible without religion, answer the following statement.
You pass by a small child drowning in a shallow pond and you are the only one around. If you pick up the child, she will survive and your pants will be ruined.

If you choose to save that child, justify why?

p.s. Answer to the point.

People are inherently moral and ethical. religion is only there to reinforce those values. There are values that are simply hard wired into us from birth. Fairness and justice, these things have existed long before religion came along. Values so primordial that we are even beginning to appreciate this inherent morality in animals.

You save the child because its a drowning child. Where is the controversy? You dont have to be maulana maududi to figure that one out.

One could of course argue the point on the basis of the old if there is no religion (ie god), then who ultimately determines what is or isnt moral routine. But I think such debates are simply academic and in reality, quite pointless. Religion doesnt tell me that saving the child is moral, my conscience does that.