I was just going over a part of my lesson on Ethics in Philosophy, and it was talking about "Is God necessary for Morality?".
I am going to put in my two cents here.
NO. What the actual? Okay. Now seriously.
God is not necessary for Morality. Are you kidding me? A person can act morally on their own without "God."
One of the arguments in the lesson arguing for god being necessary for morality was having to do with the "afterlife" of going to heaven or hell, and this was the only way for a person to act morally in life.
No. It really isn't. I am sorry, but just, no. I don't even have a firm argument here. It just seems so stupid to me, to put it in intelligent terms.
A person doesn't need a god to be ethical. A person can be ethical if they CHOOSE to be ethical. Having a god has nothing to do with that.
I honestly will state that I for the most part, behave morally. But I am also an egoist, mostly an ethical egoist, but an egoist. I am an individualist. I am going to protect my life, and love myself more than the average person. Yes, this is completely "immoral", but I frankly don't care.
I will be moral if I want to be. It doesn't matter if I have a god if I want to act morally. End of story.
Maybe I will agree with the argument that people who believe in God, act more morally than people who do not. It is like reinforcement, religion. Religion and "god" will reinforce these ideas. If you are raised in a church, you are going to learn moral values.
I am not getting into "What is moral?" and "What is immoral?" right now. Maybe another date. But just briefly stating, Who the actual fuck decides what is moral and what is not? Mostly the Christian church. Most of our moral values as a society is determined from the Christian church, whether or not you are christian.
10 Commandments anyone?
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