Religion teaches morality

[ajazali]

Re: Religion teaches morality

@Ghost14

Of course morality is possible without religion. Vast empires, with laws, existed before Abrahamic religions. They helped each other and built lives together. Obviously they weren’t hell bent on individualistic desires, with no concern for the community, else they would still be tribal nomads.

Yes people existed before Abrahamic religions but who can claim that they were not follower of any other religion and/or were not believers?

Why would you save a child? Because it’s in our nature. It’s in your best interest to do what’s best for yourself, while doing what’s best for the tribe (your community). If you decide to ignore the tribe entirely then you will get outcast, and 50,000 years ago, surviving on your own was pretty much a death sentence.

If it is our nature then it is not morality. You answer the “why” but again you are taking morality as social interdependence and self-interest behavior. This thought teaches self interest, neither this behavior is morality nor it can bring moral sense among people. Morality is something like ‘to give’ not ‘give and take’. Practically, ‘Give and Take’ reasoning in not enough to make people act morally. If you are well off guy charity will not benefit you anything, why would you give charity? Why would you forgive someone, to forgive someone will not benefit you?

It’s the same reason some animals stick together.

Sticking together of animals does not exhibit morality, it is interdependence.