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Philosophy: Religion +/- Morality
Religion as an entity serves several purposes. The most important of which aremorality, fill a human desire to find meaning/purpose in life, to never feel alone, and to be reassured that existence is not finite. All religions teach and provide these things in mostly the same way but often with different details. The details, however, tend to become more important than the teachings. Religion in this sense is pure and should be free of human will and desire. Organized religion tends to be more about using religion itself as a tool to justify actions, gain power, and/or control those honestly seeking guidance from above. One of the importances of religion is the teaching of morality. But religion is too clouded by humanity's imperfections, self-serving modivations, and rationalizations to really serve this cause well. Morality should be persued and taught completely separate from religion (Kind of the way goverment and religion need to be separate). Morality needs to be learned from outside the construct of religion and within the reasoning of the philosopher, heart, and mind. People use religion to bias morality to serve their own purposes. This is why they must be isolate and distinct from each other. Religion has been used to justify war, torture, murder, and countless other human corruptions but morality can not and should not be bent to allow this. ----------------------------------------------------------------- People do and don't do things for all the wrong reasons. Don't not do something because it is against the law, and don't do something because the Bible says so... do it because you want to, and because you want to be a better person. Sacratise said, "Can you define your morality through external authority?" That pretty much sums it up. |