Did humanity need religion to form morals in older times
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Thread Topic: Did humanity need religion to form morals in older times
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This is more of a question which would date back to the constructions of different religions. Commonly argued is the idea that we (in current times) do not need the use of religion to know not to commit something we perceive as bad (IE: murder, stealing, over self indulgence, etc)
Obviously, humanity was not always at the state it was. Murder and such was very common for in older and ancient times. In fact, murder and violence is still present today. Religion provides a set of morals and ideologies in life designed as a pathway to an ultimate ending typically akin to some kind of higher state of being beyond life. Religion has been dominant in the construction of many modern civilisations and rarely has a religion been absent in the historical construction or destruction of any modern or past civilisation.
In that sense- historically speaking- was religion a requirement in the development of human morals? Without the use of religion (historically) would today’s civilisation be at a different level of moral compass than it is now? Would we instead collectively come to the same conclusions that certain things are bad and that we shouldn’t do them, or would more modern day things that are “bad” be justified as good instead?
Or. Is morale simply a part of human design and evolution? That regardless of the use of religion or the lack-thereof a moral system will be built into us over time that other species in the planet simply do not have the capacity to experience? This of course would be an argument that morale is not a social construction but rather an evolutionary construction or of biological design .
How is the construction of morale created in humanity to what is typically known as acceptable today if we are also known to be capable of violence and lack of morale by design? If without the use of a religious factor- how do you feel generally accepted or known morale of todays world was collectively created and accepted?
This is an open question aimed at any religion and not in criticism of any perspectives. You can consider the question from both the stand point that religion was/is necessary or that it was/is not. This is more of a question of how morale was formed to what is commonly accepted today than if we still presently need the structures which designed our morals today to be moral human beings
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