Can One Be Moral

Can One Be Moral and Not Believe in God

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Course: Phi 103 Informal Logic

Instructor: Jennifer Creekmore

Date: May 6,2013

Can One be Moral and Not Believe in God

There are many people, that do not have any faith or belief in any personal god or deity, one that dispenses grace, goodness, and/or miracles according to his/her 'will'. Many people do not acknowledge any ‘supernatural’ agent or agency that intentionally intercedes in human affairs or selectively answers peoples' prayers. There are people who do not and cannot stomach any willful divine being that plays with tornados, earthquakes or any other type of natural disasters. They do not support or promote any formal, organized religious notion
Atheism is obviously the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. The word Atheism is truly a Greek term meaning without Gods. Most Atheists believe there is not enough empirical proof to bring into being an existence of God. at that place are many atheists who live ethical lives and have high moral principles, but because they reject the mind of there being a God they are looked at as being bad peck. There are some who actually believe that atheists are incapable of having a long system of morality because they do not possess religion. There is even a term coined moralistic atheists. These are the atheist who offended people think that they lack morality by giving up God. Morality can be what a person inherent rules of right and wrong that were not given to them by anyone or anything, they are inherent morals that each person is given. Another way a person can look at morality is the obvious religious implications that morals come from religion and religion only, which what God says to be right and wrong are right and wrong because God is all wise and knows the morals that we should follow to be happy. Another way that morality is described is not in the terms of religious contexts, nor is it the inherent good that every person is born with, it is the rules of right and wrong that each individual person has adapted for themselves as to what they think right and wrong truly are. There are many things that can shape
The Catholic Church, for example, considers stopping gay marriage, stopping abortion, stopping the ordination of women, and opposing stem cell research to be amongst its highest moral concerns because they think that God wants them to do these things. It's important to note that with or without religion, we are still going to have evil in this world, but we would have less evil if religion were to go away. Places of worship can be converted into meeting places and homeless shelters. Former believers can still band together and do great things. People can still take moral lessons from religions and apply them to their lives. No longer would we have such a mass of unsubstantiated beliefs and the idea that faith is admirable. A post-religious society can be had in which people demand extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims and do good just for the sake of doing good. Without religion, we can still come to the conclusion that we should help others, make this world a great place to live in, and respect other