Moral values?

morals have very little to do with religion. why do religious people think they, only, have morals. morals come from interacting with the world around you, and from the chastisement you get a s a child for doing inappropriate things Even atheists live by the rule, don't treat people in a way you don't want to be treated. You religious people might really try living that way, instead of being so judgmental and condescending, and preaching to everyone else.

Same place every religious people who is moral does.

Evolution. We evolved to be able to work together in groups because that helps survival and working together in a group requires one to have a moral code involving not attacking the other members of the group.

A good moral system must make humans the end, not a means and religious moral systems which have god as the end automatically fail this criterion.

I know I am ethical because every time I see this question, my brain tells my eye to wander up to the 'search for questions' function at the top there, then I am overcome with a kind of tiredness and irritation, I want to reach through the screen and...

STOP!

I know it's wrong. I know it's wrong to lightly strangle people. This because I have empathy (and I might hurt them, which I don;t want to do, I hate causing pain to others, and it is also against the law.

I remember I too was young, I too asked questions innocently; never thinking if the questions were rude, assumptive, or had been answered a million times before if I had just cared to research briefly.

So every time my parents didn't strangle me, they were teaching me tolerance and morals.

That is one small example. There are many dozens or more in the 'search for questions' tool.

Joking aside, religion brought superstition to bear on moral philosophy, and then we grew up.

Nowadays it is immoral to kill a woman with rocks, for loving someone who doesn't fit into the local religious ideal. Immoral, that is, unless you are terribly religious and happen to believe she deserved it.

Moral values are obtainable through various methods and are not tied down to religion, but overall acceptable human behavior set by humanity.

Any person that tries to better society and help others while not contributing to the degrading of social standards is a good person to me.

My parents raised me properly! And doing good is not a religious characteristic. It's a survival technique that begins in kindergarten. You get along or you get left behind. It's as simple as that.

When we grow older, there are rules in school that must be obeyed and then laws of the land. Morals do not originate from a religious background. They're taught every day by everyone we meet.

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Moral values were not created by religions. They merely take credit for them.

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Why Christians Must Steal From Secular Morality:

http://www.caseagainstfaith.com/submissions/steal_...

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Christians must steal their moral rules from secular morality. They have no choice, as the Bible does not offer a moral system, it only offers a series of contradictory commands and a supposed threat of punishment in the "afterlife" for not following them - a punishment that is given equally to all violators - whatever the sin.

The Bible does nothing and can do nothing towards inculcating moral behavior on its own. Christians must steal from secular moral systems, and then merely graft their 'God threats' on top of this moral system. This is necessary. And the reason for this is simple: there is no morality in the Bible and there can be no morality in the Bible, because the Bible holds that 1) ALL 'sins' are equivalent (destroying any moral sense) AND 2) all moral behavior is immaterial, because works cannot save a person, AND finally all people are damned from birth.

In reality, Christians realize that some actions are more moral than others. They realize that moral actions exist in a hierarchy, and that rape is far worse than stealing a pencil. Yet the Bible holds that all 'sins' are equal, as all deserve the same punishment.

Christians also realize that humans can be moral agents... they expect moral behavior from others, and they view their own children as something to value. Yet the Bible holds that man is worthless, that he cannot be a moral agent, and that his sole salvation comes from grace. However, since Christians realize, implicitly, that all of these these points are obviously, prima facie false, they must steal from secular systems, that hold that 1) man obviously has a value 2) all 'sins' are obviously not equivalent and 3) a person cannot be held to be doing anything 'immoral' without intent.

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Origins of the 10 commandments:

http://www.atheistalliance.org/outreach/news-2002_...

http://www.rationalrevolution.net/articles/ten_com...

Morality Without God:

http://www.atheists.org/Atheism/cohen.html

Ethics Without Gods:

http://www.atheists.org/Atheism/ethics.html

Morals Without Gods:

http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=l...

Evolution of Altruism:

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~strone01/altruism.htm...

If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Be Only Natural:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...

The Subtle, Lethal Poison of Religion:

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvo...

What made you call one 'atheist' Miss. wxyz?

Is it not because of his intellect?

Yes, an 'atheist' should have been observed the people of various walks of life, more especially Religious and irregularities in their life must have been made him an 'atheist'.

So, when he see the irregularity life, naturally he regulates his life. That seems to us as moral.

Your life should not be with irregularities and moral alone but some thing extraordinary, exemplary with a meaning.

Morality is justified in religion. Values come from experience and how one wants to live. I see that you question others when you might want to look at cleaning your own back yard. What did Jesus say. Paraphazing, Why pull the speck out of someone elses eye when you have a plank in your own. I guess when you have a plank in your own it is hard for you to look into your own life.

it is an extremely sturdy question for which i've got not got an extremely sturdy answer. i will think of approximately this. possibly the two are companions, albeit no longer companions that often artwork properly at the same time. possibly the version between the two is one in all degree, no longer form. the 1st 3 or 4 commandments manage the relationship between God and guy -- faith, something manage the relationship between guy and guy -- morality.

It almost always comes from a set of feelings, sometimes referred to as "conscience".

Our human nature allows us to imagine ourselves in the place of others, opening up the possibility of sympathy and empathy.

We also long for acceptance and praise and so our society uses those needs to train us, beginning from our infancy. We are praised when we exhibit acceptable behavior and not praised for unacceptable behavior. We are encouraged to feel sympathy. It is in society's best interests that we be trained in this way.

Our standard for good is to feel good about ourselves. We often do things (or neglect to do things) that ought to make us feel bad but our capacity for self deception comes to the rescue. We can rationalize and self justify almost anything. I have read that even criminals plotting their next crime think themselves to be basically good. The truth doesn't always make us feel good so we sort of warp truth until it feels better.