Metallox said:
You don't need religion to apply morality. Also, morality didn't appear with religion. |
Morality pre-dates religion by hundreds of years, if we didn't have morality we never would have survived as a species.
We are a *weak* species physically, we would have had our lunch handed to us (or more accurately been eaten for lunch) by many other species if we did not develop a strong communal urge to cooperate and work together. Put one human being in a cage with a lion even today and I'm putting my money on the lion. We needed to work together to hunt, to survive, to raise babies and ensure their survival, that is the basis for the development of society/community.
If we didn't learn to help each other, be civil with each other, we would've died off hundreds of years ago.
That's how we've evolved into the dominant species on the planet. That's also why we place such emphasis on being a "good" functional member of society, humanity would not have survived long if we were all fuck-heads who fucked over the group for self interests. It (what we call "morality") is actually quite likely biologically hardwired into us, much like say how bees protect their queen instincitivly. It's likely a strong biolgical signal to want to be "good" because being "good" ensures you don't get kicked out of the societal group, and being kicked out of the societal group in the past would've meant certain death, 1 human being kicked out of the tribe and left on their own is basically a death sentence in the past.
The idea that religon invented morality it is laughable, human beings have existed for hundreds and hundreds of years before organized religon.
