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What is the relationship between morality and religion?
There are three broad views that morality: depends on religion, is independent of religion and is opposed to religion.
The view that morality depends on religion maintains that without religion, there would be no morality because moral codes come from religion and moral opinions are judged by religious teaching i.e. God. Moral behavior is judged to be right or wrong depending on whether it follows or opposes the teaching of God or religious texts. For example, Christians will take the authority of the teaching of the Bible as their source of morality. Other sources of moral teachings are unreliable and could be false.
According to divine command theory, things are morally good or bad, or morally prohibited because of God’s command. The divine command theory is often thought to be refuted by an argument called The Euthyphro dillemma, which begins by asking a question; are morally good acts willed by God because they are morally good? If someone gives an answer to the dilemma that morally good acts are willed by God because they are morally good, then it links to the independence problem. If morally good acts are willed by God because they are morally good, then they must be morally good. The divine command theory person must give the second answer the Euthyphro dilemma.
Religion can help set and define moral boundaries, saving people from falling into moral chaos by abiding by the biblical laws and church teachings. The world today is often influenced by the moral teachings of religion and sometimes looks to religion to make a moral stand on vital issues. Law is based on Christian principles and society has inherited religious values. For example, Jesus’ teachings and parables such as the sermon on the mountain Mathew 5. In the end we all inherit religion morality. Belief that God made us to be good just like he represents in the Garden of Eden.
Most people, religious or not, get most of
There are three broad views that morality: depends on religion, is independent of religion and is opposed to religion.
The view that morality depends on religion maintains that without religion, there would be no morality because moral codes come from religion and moral opinions are judged by religious teaching i.e. God. Moral behavior is judged to be right or wrong depending on whether it follows or opposes the teaching of God or religious texts. For example, Christians will take the authority of the teaching of the Bible as their source of morality. Other sources of moral teachings are unreliable and could be false.
According to divine command theory, things are morally good or bad, or morally prohibited because of God’s command. The divine command theory is often thought to be refuted by an argument called The Euthyphro dillemma, which begins by asking a question; are morally good acts willed by God because they are morally good? If someone gives an answer to the dilemma that morally good acts are willed by God because they are morally good, then it links to the independence problem. If morally good acts are willed by God because they are morally good, then they must be morally good. The divine command theory person must give the second answer the Euthyphro dilemma.
Religion can help set and define moral boundaries, saving people from falling into moral chaos by abiding by the biblical laws and church teachings. The world today is often influenced by the moral teachings of religion and sometimes looks to religion to make a moral stand on vital issues. Law is based on Christian principles and society has inherited religious values. For example, Jesus’ teachings and parables such as the sermon on the mountain Mathew 5. In the end we all inherit religion morality. Belief that God made us to be good just like he represents in the Garden of Eden.
Most people, religious or not, get most of