Religion not a guaranteed link
Atlanta Journal Constitution @ Issue
July 4th, 2005
"[Zealot] statements that morality cannot exist apart from the moral absolutes of religion is another example of the penchant of many of the religious right to state what they think without regard for whether what they think is true. I would recommend an introductory course in moral philoospy to [these folks], in which they would discover a weatlh of ethical and moral groundings with no connection whatsoever to relligion.
The Code of Hammurabi comes to mind, predating the Ten Commandments by about 1500 years. It is one thing to state that one's moral compass is set by one's faith; it is quite another to insist, in spite of centuries of evidence to the contrary, that one's faith provides the only moral compass available to humankind. Adherents of religion are not necessarily moral, (evidence abounds), and moral persons are not necessarily adherents of religion."
-Rev. Edward Frost-
Note: Additional readings about the Code of Hammuabi are here
posted by Richard at
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
2 Comments:
Another example of note in this regard is Confucianism which also provided moral teachings; yet does not deal with spirituality, the afterlife or theological concerns.
It exhorts the State and all persons within the State to conduct themselves honorably; principally by applying the rule: "do onto others as you would have them do onto you".
Additionally, the tenents of Confucianism predate the Ten Commandments by at least 500 years.
The problem with Wingnuts is they focus almost exclusively on goals, believing the means to those goals will occur irrespective of their efforts, or lack thereof.
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