How does religion influence your morality?

[lewisnotmiller]

I see a struggle on your part to make denial.
Addressing your faint left and right leads no where.

You gotta be kidding me. I gotta be a glutton...*sighs*
All right, then, what is it I'm denying?

As for a faint (sic) left or right, I have no idea what you're talking about. Unlike some posters I could name I simply say what I think with my main aim to be communication, not obfuscation.

 

[1robin]

Everyone is giving epistemological guess at how we come to know morality but that is not the important issue. The important issue is the ontological nature of morality it's self.

For any objective moral fact to be true a transcendent source must exist.

Let me give the worn but unassailable argument for anyone's benefit that never has heard it.

1. Humans perceive an objective moral realm so universally that believing one exists is perfectly justified.
2. If a single moral that anyone believes is actually an objective fact.
3. A transcendent source is necessary.

So if anyone believes that torturing a little girl for fun is actually wrong then you need a God to be correct.
If you instead believe it is just socially unfashionable or a Darwinian illusion fobbed off on us by our Genes. No God necessary and no justice possible.

I do not care what words are used to describe ethics without God they equal opinion. If you claim the tired and true empathy motivation then it is just your opinion versus Hitler's who was actually being empathic and there is no objective standard to judge who is right. Thank God no society has ever operated solely of Social Darwinian or materialistic foundations. I am not as concerned by where you learned your morality as to whether on your worldview it could ever be true.

 

[Sand Dancer]

I try to love my neighbor as myself.

 

[IndigoStorm]

Hi everyone. I've been taking a class in moral psychology for my undergrad psych degree, and we've been talking about the ways religion can influence and shape a person's morality. I thought it would be more interesting to get a firsthand account, instead of just hearing about it in class.

So, I have a few questions if anyone wants to respond. First, how does your particular religious affiliation influence your morality? Second, do you think you'd have different moral values if you were to follow a different religion? And third, what would you consider to be your most important moral principles (IE, purity, deference to authority, loyalty, etc.). If you're comfortable with sharing your particular religious affiliation, I'd love to hear that as well.

Thanks!

Considering the sheer scope of the murder, rape, incest & torture prevalent in the Old Testament of the Bible, much of it either sanctioned or perpetrated by "God" ... I ask you with tears in my eyes: "Can any religious affiliation influence a human's morality except in the most terrible way?"