Moral Psychology And The Misunderstanding Of Religion

[nhboy]

MORAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE MISUNDERSTANDING OF RELIGION

"I study morality from every angle I can find. Morality is one of those basic aspects of humanity, like sexuality and eating, that can't fit into one or two academic fields. I think morality is unique, however, in having a kind of spell that disguises it. We all care about morality so passionately that it's hard to look straight at it. We all look at the world through some kind of moral lens, and because most of the academic community uses the same lens, we validate each other's visions and distortions. I think this problem is particularly acute in some of the new scientific writing about religion.

I just want to make one point, however, that should give contractualists pause: surveys have long shown that religious believers in the United States are happier, healthier, longer-lived, and more generous to charity and to each other than are secular people."
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[Marie]

MORAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE MISUNDERSTANDING OF RELIGION

"I study morality from every angle I can find. Morality is one of those basic aspects of humanity, like sexuality and eating, that can't fit into one or two academic fields. I think morality is unique, however, in having a kind of spell that disguises it. We all care about morality so passionately that it's hard to look straight at it. We all look at the world through some kind of moral lens, and because most of the academic community uses the same lens, we validate each other's visions and distortions. I think this problem is particularly acute in some of the new scientific writing about religion.

I just want to make one point, however, that should give contractualists pause: surveys have long shown that religious believers in the United States are happier, healthier, longer-lived, and more generous to charity and to each other than are secular people."
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One of the two ways we know there is a God before anyone ever tells us. We can see him through creation and everyone has his moral law written in our hearts thats why we know when we do wrong via the conscious.

It falls under Natural Revelation

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house

of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my

laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts:

and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a

people: And they shall not teach every man his

neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know

the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the

greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,

and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no

more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made

the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old

is ready to vanish away. Hebrews 8:10-13

Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all impiety [or, ungodliness] and unrighteousness of people, [upon] the ones suppressing the truth in unrighteousness.
Rom 1:19 For this reason, the [thing] known of God is revealed among [or, within] them, for God revealed [it] to them.
Rom 1:20 For from [the] creation of [the] world His invisible [attributes] are plainly seen, being understood by the [things] made, both His eternal power and divinity, so that they are without excuse.
Rom 1:21 For this reason, having known God, they did not glorify [Him] as God nor did they give thanks, _but_ they were given over to deception in their thought processes [or, they became futile in their speculations], and their foolish heart [fig., inner self, and throughout book] was darkened.
Rom 1:22 Professing to be wise, they were made fools,

 

[nhboy]

I thought this was interesting.....
" Religious believers give more money than secular folk to secular charities, and to their neighbors. They give more of their time, too, and of their blood. Even if you excuse secular liberals from charity because they vote for government welfare programs, it is awfully hard to explain why secular liberals give so little blood. The bottom line, Brooks concludes, is that all forms of giving go together, and all are greatly increased by religious participation and slightly increased by conservative ideology (after controlling for religiosity)."