Religious people keep telling us that humans are basically immoral and that we need God and the Bible to give us morals. I have seen the statement many times that without God’s Morals we would rape, murder and steal. Unbelievers are therefor bad people since they have no “morals’ to restrain them This “argument” is a fallacy of course since there are many “unbelievers” who do not need the fear of God or Hell to be “good”.
In a new book “Just babies: the Origin of Good and Evil” (Crown2013) by Yale university researcher Paul Bloom, provides experimental evidence of innate morals. One-year-old babies already have a sense of what is a good action and punish unfair or bad actions. It is an interesting read and it indicates that babies have an inborn sense of good and bad. Of course society’s culture and laws will influence this inborn morality in either direction but it indicates that we are born with basic morals which we can build upon and help us to cooperate with each other to the benefit of society, avoiding the religious morals which have led to, and is currently creating, intolerance and hatred to others with different religious morals.
In a new book “Just babies: the Origin of Good and Evil” (Crown2013) by Yale university researcher Paul Bloom, provides experimental evidence of innate morals. One-year-old babies already have a sense of what is a good action and punish unfair or bad actions. It is an interesting read and it indicates that babies have an inborn sense of good and bad. Of course society’s culture and laws will influence this inborn morality in either direction but it indicates that we are born with basic morals which we can build upon and help us to cooperate with each other to the benefit of society, avoiding the religious morals which have led to, and is currently creating, intolerance and hatred to others with different religious morals.
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