Either some divine being crafted our moral sense during the period of creation or we picked it up from the teachings of organized religion. Paraphrasing Katherine Hepburn in The African Queen, religion allows us to rise above that wicked old mother nature, handing us a moral compass. In the United States, where the conservative right argues that we should turn to religion for moral insights and inspiration, the gap between government and religion is rapidly diminishing,.
Abortion and the withdrawal of life-support. And religion has once again begun to make its way back into public schools, seeking equal status alongside a scientific theory of human nature.. Yet problems abound for the view that morality comes from God. One problem is that we cannot, without lapsing into tautology, simultaneously say that God is good, and that he gave us our sense of good and bad. That lacks the resonance of " Praise the Lord! A second problem is that there are no moral principles shared by all religious people disregarding their specific religious membership but no agnostics and atheists.
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We see that people can choose religious beliefs, churches and even whole religions based on the morality that they already have. And this is the morality that atheists have too.
Social psychologist Nicholas Epley and his colleagues surveyed religious believers about their moral beliefs and the moral beliefs of God.
When respondents were asked again what God thought, people reported that God agreed with their new opinion! Yet most surveyed still clung to the illusion that they got their moral compass from what they think God believes is right and wrong.
Read more: Being a progressive Christian shouldn't be an oxymoron. They are right, I think. But the point still stands. So if moral commands are a subset of the commands of reason — and they surely are — they must still be commands of an agent or agents.
We are agents. Could moral commands be our commands? That does not seem plausible. For one thing, it would mean we could make anything morally right just by commanding ourselves to do it. Command yourself to do something that has hitherto seemed obviously wrong to you — physically assaulting someone, say — and see if it suddenly starts to seem morally right to assault someone now.
If moral commands appeared to us to be our own commands it would strike us as silly to wonder whether an act is right or wrong, or think anyone else could provide us with moral insight into the matter.
We know better than anyone else what we are commanding ourselves to do at any given point, so it would be obvious to us that we could establish the morality of any deed by introspection.
Yet we all sometimes wonder whether a particular act is right or wrong, and consider it perfectly sensible to think others may have greater insight than we do into the matter.
So moral commands appear to be external. Appearances can be accurate or inaccurate.
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