Religion
In reply to the discussion: The Problem with Religious Moderates [View all]trotsky
(49,533 posts)Striving to find out what is the best behavior as we live in the societies we do, which of the following methods do you believe is better:
1) We should analyze actions and their consequences. Observation and reason and human compassion, all weighed carefully in the context of how we treat each other. How somebody thinks a god feels in the matter is totally irrelevant.
2) We should do what somebody thinks a god wants us to do. If that coincides with what we think is moral, great, but god takes precedence.
Of course many ideas have been used and abused to promote bad things. But the point you are missing is that religion is the ONLY method that can say, "You need to do this because god orders it." No questions asked. There is no other equivalence to cosmic dictator decree - IF we grant that as within the realm of possibility. Do you?
Evolution is not used to seriously support social darwinism or eugenics today. But god is still being used to support horrible atrocities - all the time.