Church forced girl, 15, to apologize for pregnancy by rape

[The Fury]

sapphi_snake said:

The Fury said:

Sadly true, it still stands that an individual's morals as based on teachings and their views on them. If not scewed by their owns perceptions. In majority of cases it helps the person become better.

Whether this is true, religion is the basis for nigh on all man's perceptions on what is right or wrong by the commandments and teachings, and from these our morals are based around them.

I'm not religious, and my morals don't come from any religion. And Christianity actually borrowed most of it's moral principles froom the Greek phislosphers, Confucianism was a philosiphical system that was turned by it's adepts into a religion etc. Morals come from philosophy, and are reflections on the best way to behave, in order for society to work. They have nothing to do with supernatural forces.

Your morals might not but society's as a whole does. It's religion that established the morals, religious spread was/is far stronger then common thinking or philosphy. Christianity might have borrowed views on western morality choices but what of the rest of the world? Many regions have their own views on morality unconnected to Christianity yet these areas do have faiths which contain those definitions of right and wrong.