Comments on: The Dismantling of Religion: Is Society Losing its Moral Compass?

By: Esteban

Esteban — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:09:13 +0000

I agree with Robert here. The fact is that history shows how humans can have very distinct views of what is “right’ and “wrong” (the fact that slavery was considered normal for most of history shows this is the case). And generally speaking, I wouldn’t find christian’s overzealous preaching of moral absolutism if their religion wasn’t as destructive and cancerous as it is today. Countless cultures and ethnicities destoryed by christian’s evangelism… all because they belive to be the ”’true”’ religion.

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Anonymous — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:19:29 +0000

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By: Robert Landbeck

Robert Landbeck — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 21:49:28 +0000

While religion exists, well woven into the cultural fabric, whether or not those ancient institutions, whatever ‘moral’ guidance they may pretend, ever had a moral compass or foundation to offer mankind is a another question. And society having a moral compass is even a more dubious idea. If indeed we popped out of the womb with a moral compass as part of human nature, history has little evidence of it. And what good is a any moral compass that continuously points in the wrong direction? Religion plays with the concept of ‘natural law’ yet that has not stopped the historical sexual corruptions and abuses among the clergy and their institutional forms. I am happy to agree that a trustworthy moral compass is just what our species could use and rather badly at the moment, but there is no obvious source from which such a reality might be found.