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what are your guys thoughts
religion is essential to a moral society?
what are your guys opinions or support?
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Like, i'm 16...and I honestly think that people have the right to do whatever they want. But i think it is so hard to live life without believing something. I think that it is good to have some belief about life and everything because if not, then you end up being all confused and you don't really have a base on what life is about or how to live life successfully. I think that life without any kind of religion or belief is tough, because you question things more and you aren't steady and life gets a bitunbalanced and overwhelming. this is my thot abt religion. I hope it made sense.
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I completely disagree with that statement. In fact, very often, religion has been a strong force opposing moral/ ethical development.
It is true that most religions offer a set of guidelines. The ten commandments are probably the most well known example. However, religious guidelines are not the only thing influencing morality.
The philosophy of ethics has evolved in parallel to religion. Sometimes it has been influenced by religious thought, but many times it has purposefully avoided taking it into consideration.
Non religious based ethics has played a very important role throughout history to evolve our concept of rights and lawmaking. Often it has had to fight hard to undo the resistance to change caused by adherence to religious theories/ interpretations.
Without getting too far into this, I have never seen any evidence that religion is an essential part of morality. For any example where religion has been shown to spur acts of kindness and fairness, I believe it would be fairly easy to find a counterpart (if not several).
Furthermore, many religions have (whether due to faulty interpretations or otherwise) stood in the way of developing rights for women, members of other faiths/ groups, homosexuals, animals, and so on.
Finally, I have never seen any statistics that showed any correlation between atheism and an increase in unethical behaviour. In fact, one can find a number of statistics that hint that the opposite might be true (if memory serves, crime rates and divorce rates were generally higher amongst many religious groups in the US).
This in itself does not prove anything, since atheists are a radically diverse group, and since so many factors play into these statistics. However in my opinion it does negate any chance of anyone being able to prove that religion is a mandatory component of ethics.
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Nope, not entirely.
I think that most religious people have morals.
BUT, you don't have to be religious to have morals.
I'm not religious, but I definitely have morals.
I'm anti murder
I'm anti abortion (but pro-choice)
I believe that a "fetus" is a baby on life support.
They can't quite live on their own, but after a little bit of time, they'll be just fine.
You don't have to be religious to dislike lying, cheating, adultery, forgery, honesty, foul language, etc.
Like I said, I'm not the most religious person, but I have morals. I don't want to be lied to, cheated on, etc. I would never think to cheat on someone I loved. Yeah, I've lied and cheated on homework, but I always feel guilty afterwords. I consider that having morals.
Of course I don't believe being religious is essential to having morals. I do, however, believe that religious people have morals and that being religious certainly can't hurt.
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