Comments on: Is morality tied to a belief in God? http://aldenswan.com/2008/07/is-morality-tied-to-a-belief-in-god/ free speech, critical thinking, and really good coffee Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:36:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: me http://aldenswan.com/2008/07/is-morality-tied-to-a-belief-in-god/comment-page-1/#comment-843 me Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:34:15 +0000 http://www.aldenswan.com/?p=422#comment-843 Welcome back. Welcome back.

]]> By: Quixote http://aldenswan.com/2008/07/is-morality-tied-to-a-belief-in-god/comment-page-1/#comment-842 Quixote Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:57:36 +0000 http://www.aldenswan.com/?p=422#comment-842 "Christianity is also not committed to the belief that Christians are more ethical than others"? Whew. “Christianity is also not committed to the belief that Christians are more ethical than others”?

Whew.

]]> By: Mike Haubrich, FCD http://aldenswan.com/2008/07/is-morality-tied-to-a-belief-in-god/comment-page-1/#comment-841 Mike Haubrich, FCD Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:52:27 +0000 http://www.aldenswan.com/?p=422#comment-841 Tom's point may be succinct, but in the comments the idea that Hitchens thinks of his children mechanistically is codswallop. The way that we approach morals is taught through an accumulated and evolutionary social progress of group cohesion and survival. Religion as an institution has been a force to shape those morals, but religion, rather than directing morals from god is an authoritative source created by man. So, if there are studies that the religious are better behaved than the religious, then perhaps they are more scared of hell. Tom’s point may be succinct, but in the comments the idea that Hitchens thinks of his children mechanistically is codswallop.

The way that we approach morals is taught through an accumulated and evolutionary social progress of group cohesion and survival. Religion as an institution has been a force to shape those morals, but religion, rather than directing morals from god is an authoritative source created by man.

So, if there are studies that the religious are better behaved than the religious, then perhaps they are more scared of hell.

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