Religion And Morality Ryan Mckay

Others will argue that, without religion one’s morality is limited, it is weak, incapable of truly growing to a higher level of thinking. These people will point again to religions where hate crimes are committed, but ultimately in the end these people are only thinking of themselves. However, without the power of religion, we as a race wouldn’t know the world we live in today. In this 2015 essay, published in Psychological Bulletin, “Religion and Morality,” Ryan Mckay and Harvey Whitehouse, explained that “To become culturally widespread, shoes must fit the basic morphology of human feet, while also satisfying other biologically endowed preferences” In fact, “According to this approach, religious and moral cultural representations are triggered and constrained by implicit, intuitive cognitive systems in much the same way that the
In other words, we as a species evolve physically and consciously in a way where we are constantly thinking about our main purpose in life. This metaphor explains that if we are cold we need something that can be easily conformed to anyone while at the same time include personal preferences. So, in other words we as humans created these religions to explain to the rest of the world how a life is lived within that region. Even though it may seem like every religion is different there is still implications that give reason to believe that in the end religion is trying to help us live a better life. Harvey(2015) argued that morality and religion “construct their moral norms and institutions on a comparatively small subset of foundations.” because “For example, whereas the moral orders of most traditional societies are broad, the moral domain in WEIRD cultures (Henrich et al., 2010) is built largely on the first two (“individualizing”) foundations, focusing on the protection of individuals from harm and exploitation”. For the purposes of dividing morality, we import what we regard as the dominant model within psychology for our