When you are at a crossroad of what is right or wrong, would you allow your moral standards take charge or religious standards?
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When you are at a crossroad of what is right or wrong, would you allow your moral standards take charge or religious standards?
Religion isn’t inherently about what is ethical or moral. It is about supposed commands from a supposed god. Sometimes those commands might be good and sometimes they might be bad, such as stating that a rapist can pay off the father of the raped woman/girl with fifty pieces of silver, and he marries the daughter. Yes, that’s in the Bible. Moral standards require you to to think about the harm that you do another with your actions. Religion does not require you to think, just follow a set of rules, like a robot. Moral standards should and must be about reducing human suffering and harm, not about following commands in an unthinking way.
I will definitely go with moral standards hands down. Religion is not required. People have moral values regardless of religions or claimed deities. I am not making the connection of ethics to religions, we use ethics, we don’t need religion. A large population of non religious people exist around the world living as people do with morals without gods or religions.