Where does morality come from? (VFX Street Preaching Week #2)

(VenomFangX Street Preaching Week #2)

Addresses the idea of morals being written on our hearts by God (or, more likely, by something else..)

Clips extracted from "An Honest Search for Truth": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMQ5zqMsQJI

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[GoforBroke4]

Now, now evid3nce3. I thought you were smarter than this.

Can it be scientifically tested whether religious people are more moral or not? If it turns out they are, will you admit that you were wrong?

As well, what the experiment you quoted really showed was the nationality and not religion is what affects morals.

[Evid3nc3]

Absolutely. Show me a study where non-Israeli Christian children are tested and don't give pretty much the exact same answers, and I will believe it.

You can't say it "was nationality" and it "was not religion" from the study alone. All you can say is that it may have just been their nationality and not their religion. The test I recommended above (do it with American Christian children) would put an end to that question.

[1clevername]

I see where you are coming from in certain situations but why give to the poor or help those in need if it has nothing to do with your success as an individual. Why not just murder those who get in your way especially if you are sure you will get away with it. Getting caught is the only reason not to do evil.

[Evid3nc3]

"Getting caught is the only reason not to do evil."

One of the best reasons not to murder, etc. is because if everyone acted like that, our species would quickly cease to exist.

Probably the greatest evolutionary stride made by Homo Sapiens was the ability to look outside of one's individual self and see how helping others does help one's self.

[ubermensch826]

Yeah now that I think about it, the Westboro Baptist Church is the most logically consistent religious group out there.

[winston2015]

reason

[rmaynard626]

Moral intuition???? Very weak argument to deflect the fact that morality could NEVER be superimposed through natural selection... The whole argument defies COMMON SENSE... Even various indigineous tribes in the remote parts of Central America know that murder is wrong. How did they know that murder is wrong?

[ProtestantsRUs]

Morality comes from Christianity, specifically Jesus' teachings. The Lord laid down His morality, and humanity has followed it, whether we like it or not

[SkinheadSaint]

WOW! talk about neglect of context to shove atheist dogma...

[A4thinker]

@Evid3nc3, you've made a fundamental error in this video. You state that natural selection explains morality because it has survival value for the species as a whole. Now whilst I agree that natural selection is responsible for morality, you're talking about something called 'group selection' which has long been abandoned in biology. Look up 'selfish gene' theory and you'll see that natural selection acts on genes, not even on an individual, never mind a species.

[UndeadClown95]

I must say VenomFangX your moral compass is so fucked up I will be surprised if you make it back to the parking lot.

What movie? Someone's seen it

[UndeadClown95]

Dude I wanna like see VenomFangX street preaching so I can run up and kick his ass. He would feel good in the long run he would think God would reward him for it. So I'll make sure his reward is good and use a baseball bat if i have one.

Thats how my morality works BITCH LMAO

[Lukyo1984]

Moral intuition? First of all morality doesn't exist in the natural world, there is no basis to deem some actions good and others evil. Even if it did morality would actually hamper a creatures ability to survive. True morality demands a creature to sacrifice himself for the benefit of other creatures which could possible kill the creature before passing on the trait of moral intuition.

[thevoyce123]

I believe we can both agree, at least, that morals imply right and wrong. What is the meaning of right and wrong, and what is the basis of comparison for right and wrong? Is not right and wrong purely subjective?