Posted by rpcman on June 23, 1998 at 16:02:04:
In Reply to: Ethics without God posted by Carlos on June 23, 1998 at 15:34:57:
Without the strictures and traditions imposed by a religion that promises to punish sinners, the moral controls that moderate our base desires will lose their validity...
Isn't this a good thing? As the previous article I linked to mentioned--morals should be distinguished from ethics and ethical thinking should be implimented (rather than rigid 'moral' rules).
Is it really more difficult to teach ethical thinking than it is to teach religious thinking? I don't think so. In the long run the latter will become useless to many people anyway.
In a nutshell, I explain this 'ethical thinking' below but I incorrectly use "moral" where I should have used "ethical".