Religion and Morality

I recently sat an exam for philosophy at university, and this is one of the questions I was asked to answer. I thought I'd share the question, and I'd love to hear various thoughts on it.

In addition, it may seem that I am using the words theism and religion as exchangeable here, and normally speaking, I certainly wouldn't do this - the reason I'm doing it here is simply because not everyone is going to be familiar with the actual meaning of the word theism, but certainly will relate to the idea of religion.

Thanks for understanding :)

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Education

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• religion
• morality
• theism
• atheism
• colin
• reynolds
• kungfucolin
• philosophy
• exam
• university

[thankqwerty]

I think philosophy should be replaced by game theory and evolution theory.

[kungfucolin]

@thankqwerty game theory and evolution theory are both part of philosophy. Logic of Decision and Evolutionary philosophy, respectively.

[Philosification]

Morals are not rules but only a system of weighing values... nothing more than a list of things to like or not and the rest is a naturally formed extension... I think you've just cut morality down to a axiom.

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[kungfucolin]

@Philosification Thankyou very much :)

[iVi477o]

These are my favorite kind of videos from you.

[kungfucolin]

Thankyou. that is very kind of you to say :)

[thankqwerty]

@moyga

Well perhaps not replacing all philosophy, but morality for sure.

[moyga]

@thankqwerty

lol evidently you don't understand what philosophy is.

[xtian21c]

@EvonyProfessor …duh! Of course, it’s human perception. God’s existence, culpability in a murder trial, plausibility of the theory of relativity – it’s all human perception. That doesn’t mean whatever I think is right. God's existence or non-existence are mutually exclusive realities. If he's merely fiction, it changes everything. You dismiss these questions as irrelevancies, but you haven’t argued that position, you’ve just assumed it – back to my previous post.

[EvonyProfessor]

@xtian21c err its Human perception of Gods values even if God really existed.

1 says, "This is what i want, so its what i'll do'.

The other, "This is what i think someone else wants (God) so it's what i'll do."

God having existed or not, or being created by humans or not, doesn't change that at all.

[Sapote91]

Pomen's question also assumes theism promotes equality?

[Sapote91]

We are bound by our social constructs that define all else; the concepts of equality, morality and religion are derived from this point.

People/society as a whole will always be 'moral' (a fluid concept) as it is always in their best interests, to be a part of a society; derive too far from social constructs and one is outcast. Resulting in either increased valuelessness or the creation of another society with it's own concepts of equality, religion, morality etc.

[syncatron]

Awesome video! Informational and easy to watch :D

[syncatron]

Awesome video! Informational and easy to watch :D