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"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

And my standpoint, as a Christian, is that morality is prevalent in every culture because God included it in us when He created each one of us. So, I see it as something which has its origin in God, but isn't necessarily affected by a religious orientation.


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AG wrote:

I see it as something which has its origin in God, but isn't necessarily affected by a religious orientation.

I like that. And I wholeheartedly agree.


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"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion isn't the basis for morals. Morals are the basis for religion. I, obviously, do not think God created morals. Humans have created morals through the process of evolution, to some extent.


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"One might be asked "How can you prove that a god does not exist?" One can only reply that it is scarcely necessary to disprove what has never been proved."
David A. Spitz

But that makes no sense. Many times, morals don't benefit the person being moral. "No good deed goes unpunnished." As evolutionary creatures, why would we sacrifice something of ourselves or deny ourselves some gratification for others?

When you look at nature, where it truly is survival of the fittest, animals very rarely act morally. Even housepets only behave once they've been trained to avoid punnishment by doing so. No, I don't believe morals could've evolved.


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