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Do you think you need religion to have a sense of morality/ethics? [Spirituality & Religion]

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I don’t. Really grinds my gears when religious people try to tell me or suggest this.

If something hurts or causes distress, you shouldn’t want other people to experience it or intend to make them. I guess sociopaths/psychopaths are the exception as they don’t have that capability to sympathise or it is very limited. This sounds like oversimplifying things, obviously people cause suffering everyday. I think people are good for the most part but often misguided and blinded by there own beliefs which gives them a sense of superiority. People can trick themselves into harming others because they believe it is for good.

Religious texts do have plenty of examples of compassion and good morals having said that, although some bad in my opinion at least but I think people tend to disregard certain parts luckily. I just don’t think you need religion to tell you how to be a good person or the belief of hell or reincarnation to a lesser form to scare you into being good
GlassDog · 41-45, M Best Comment
Religion is only one set of ethics. Other religions have other sets. Then there's philosophy, a code of laws, literature.

Some of my ethics agree with religious ethics but I'd like to think they'd be the same even if religion didn't exist.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F
No. I support something called evolutionary morality which is a theory that I could say more later but I don't have time now. One day we learned fire burned us and some people learn to not do it again and others well... don't. Then along the way we evolved to ask things like why does fire burn us and so forth.

I believe morals is just learned behavior from the environment because while it's good to have morals, morals are not really real in nature so their more learned behavior as a result.

The invention of religious morals is a lie since religions are bound to geography morals would change just like the concept of family. Sure religion is one set of morality but it's [b]not the only[/b] morality.
Mona86 · C
No, but I bet whilst growing up, you were taught right from wrong because you grew up with religious parents and even though you have no religion you have morality.
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If a person needs religious texts for their entire moral standing, something is wrong with that.
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@SW-User Yes, if someone can't tell right from wrong, they don't lack religion... they lack empathy.
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
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AbbyS94 · F
Superb!@Harriet03
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
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basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@SW-User not to mention conversion therapy happens to many gay Christian kids and it's a vile abusive practice.
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Some things taught in religions go against my ethics and sense of right and wrong so I don’t follow any
zeframcochrane · 26-30, M
Whenever religious people say this to me it's always easy for me to get them to shut the fuck up by informing them (since most are ironically unaware) that the wide majority of serial murderers in recent times have been quite religious (Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgway). Thus, religion and moral absolution are not always mutually inclusive.
It really is a shame the 10 commandments are tied to religion..
If we called them like ‘an idiots guide to being civil in society’...
we might be better off.
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basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout not all ten. I'll take the Lord's name in vain if I want.
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout Those 'commandments' say don't lie, steal, cheat, or kill. Frankly, I had that pretty much on board before I left kindergarten.

The rest of the 'commandments' are concerned with suppressing any possible opposition to that particular magical entity's authority, and with making sure that everyone does what the old men tell them to do.
Jm31xxx · 41-45, M
Yes. Yes i do.
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newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@Jm31xxx [quote]Stalin and Chairman Mao were both Atheists[/quote]

and they both wore shoes
@Jm31xxx

Wait...you think that you need religion to have a sense of morality/ethics on the basis that a couple of individuals were shitty?

That doesn't strike you as a unrealistic generalization?
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M

 
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