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Research shows that the reason humans struggle with emotion to find equitable solutions is pinpointed the region of the brain called the insular cortex, or insula, which is also the seat of emotional reactions.

The fact that the brain has such a robust response to unfairness shows that sensing unfairness is a basic evolved capacity.

The emotional response to unfairness pushes people from extreme inequity and drives them to be fair. This observation shows our basic impulse to be fair isn't a complicated thing that we learn.

It therefore fully illustrates that all humans have morals controlled by the brain and that Christians are entirely wrong to try and claim morals as their own!!!!

But Christians found a way round it!!

Government statistics show that christians are vastly over represented in prisons for sexual, violent and fraudulent crime!!

The Catholic church is paying millions in compensation for the sex/pedophile crimes of their priests alone!!

Christians are vastly over represented in the divorce courts!!

Christians invented the concept of sin and then the idea that you could sin, ask forgiveness, get pardoned and start with a clean sheet!!

So no surprise that they are so expert at it is it?!!!

A Christian is a man that feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. - Thomas Russell Ybarra

Though oversimplified, there is some truth to this statement. Morality evolves along with our culture, knowledge, and awareness. Things that were considered "moral" a hundred years ago are considered horrible now, since we know more and society has changed. Slavery, the witch trials, lack of rights for women- these are all good examples of this principle.

Religion in general may not necessarily be bad for morality in this sense because some religions are quite tolerant or allow for changes in thought. SPECIFIC religions, however, are a challenge to the evolution of morality. Christianity is one of them. There is no room for change or growth in its moral code, despite the fact that most Christians will acknowledge a necessity for change in this same code from Old Testament to New Testament (they call it the New Covenant, and its mostly an easy way of explaining why the horribly immoral codes of the Old Testament "don't count anymore"). The big three religions aren't great for society in this way when taken literally, however it must be taken into account that the majority of people in those religions are in fact moderates and not the extremists that get the most attention in forums like this.

This has less to do with morals and more with challenging beliefs. Theists, agnostics, and atheists all have people that have horrible or great things according to your beliefs and how you were raised.

Religious beliefs aside, slavery is still being practiced in the world because they believe it is right. Burning women at the stake might go on in some parts of the world, but there are many other "horrific and primitive" means people still get killed in the world by people because they have different beliefs. There are man of science that would want to cull all religious people and stop the indoctrination of their beliefs....

Religion in a sense does not make people like this. There are religious people who are open-minded enough to admit they COULD be wrong. Generally the dangerous ones are zealous in their beliefs and anything that comes in opposition must be delt with.

The same could be said for a person who does not believe in any gods at all. There are open-minded Athiests in the world and are kind and respectful for all people and their differences and then there are Atheists that hate the idea of people believing in such "idiodcy" and would do very "horrible" things to these people.

Flip a coin.

that's not true. God calls us to challenge him because the Truth will always win out. people know that when morals are challenged they make an example of themselves when they finally come back down to earth.

i'll try to make it a little clearer: let's take adultery as an example. why's it bad? let's say you don't know. you just don't do it because the bible says not to (a good enough reason, but doesn't strengthen your faith) and when you question it and go cheat on your spouse, they lose trust in you, your friends lose trust in you, and relationships are ruined. it's not just the fact that God frowns upon it that He makes it a sin, it's the fact that you're either defying him or wronging your fellow man, and when you do all you can do is pick yourself up and know exactly why adultery is wrong.

and, i'm all for challenging the establishment that advocates slavery. slaves are addressed in the bible because they were around at the time but the act of slavery is never advocated. if an establishment is advocating slavery, they are going against Christ and, because of such, rebuked. same for burning witches. it's not the religion that's the problem, it's the wrong people being in power at the wrong time.

one more thing: just because an idea is old, doesn't mean that it's wrong. have a nice day.

I'm sorry, but I have to challenge your usage of the term 'morality'. You're talking about morality as if it's something dynamic that depends on personal beliefs, culture or whatever. That's not morality, that's ethics. Morality is the absolute, universal set of rules that describe what is objectively good or bad.

To rephrase your point, yes, religion is bad because it instructs people to hold on to an arbitrary, unfounded set of ethics, thereby preventing them from eventually matching actual morality through logical thought.

Agreed in that some morals are absolute. You shall not kill, rape, commit adultery, steal, etc., but things like slavery, abortion, sexual preference, enforcement of religious dogma in general should be challenged. Religion is a bad influence in that dogma overrules common sense in many of these cases.

Blessings on your Journey!

Religious morals are static. Which makes them not morals. Go look up the word moral. Then you'll see.

nicely you say "we" as in mankind become self reliant from the Universe, stumbled on or created those "morals" and extra effectual a thank you to stay, yet in accordance to the Bible, technological awareness, and a great variety of findings, we are in basic terms a spec in the evolution of the Universe. With that being suggested, i'm going to ask you this: Is seeing somewhat believing? My concept is that all of us understand very little or no of what's the everyday fact, of our commencing place, purpose, and identity; faith or no faith. you say prepared faith because of the fact the religions and ideology unfold throughout the time of the international have been specifically preached via people in seek of credit, ability, and money. consequently, all of us have lost plenty admire for "faith" and in turn the Gospel. The be attentive to God or the Gospel is what inspired all the final ideals and understandings in each and all of the religions from the previous, latest, and destiny. The be attentive to God is particularly identifyable as quickly as you have opened your self to the opportunity of perfection in existence and what's genuine. what's particularly genuine could be stumbled on in the final ideals and "morals" you communicate of yet, we (mankind) in basic terms desire the credit for analyzing them while those glaring regulations of having good existence have been around long till now the planet replaced into even shaped. we are creatures of generally habit. The repetition of doubt and stagnation in our psychological makeup and concept gadget has thwarted our ability and willingness to "permit flow and allow God" with the objective to talk. We somewhat have confidence ourselves sufficient to artwork together and in turn arise with all the justifications in the e book "getting away with homicide". So shall we in basic terms say (for loss of a extra effectual be conscious) it somewhat is our doubt and malintent that hinders the evolution and organic progression of God's innate ethical codes. i does no longer say you're incorrect in basic terms lacking considerable products of archives.

Religion allows people to set better morals for themselves.

what does morals have to do with slavery or witchcraft...your A to B line of thinking is flawed. as usual.