The Effects Of Religion On Our Judgment

This is explained in Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development where in stage 1 he explains how one could determine what is right and wrong by if they will be punished or not which can feel like you have no other

I am not a very religious person but my religion did have its part to play in shaping my morals. I believed that people should be treated equally, be kind to one another, and learn to forgive. After being raised in an extremely catholic household, whenever I question or go against our religion, my parents would be very angry. I was saddened with Chief Seattle’s words of how “Your God loves your people and hates mine…” because I always believed that god viewed all equally but there are occurrences where he shows favoritism, abandonment, ignorance.

Do you think that we are all born with a sense of what is right and what is wrong regardless of race, age or nationality?

As we grow and mature that sense of right and can be distorted by the culture that is around us if we decide to allow these beliefs to remain up to personal interpretation alone. We are born with an understanding of right and wrong whether we want to believe that or not. This is not something that we cannot say derives from our mind because it is something that extends outside of our physical components. The concept is that it originates from somewhere we cannot understand physically. This understanding of right and wrong comes from the conscience which we will never understand in the physical sense because it is not a member of our being in the physical

morality is made out of our own sense of right and wrong-it is constructive and can

It’s important with the idea of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ is that each of us have a conscience with a distinct morale compass. Furthermore, every human being is created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27). Part of the distinction of that image of God, is the conscience that intuitively recognizes good and evil, setting apart right from wrong. All civilized culture has adopted a similar standard as a sociological basis on this fundamental inherent understanding of good and evil. For example: Murder, theft, deceit, are indicative to being universally understood as to being wrong. Often our depravity overrides the readily available innate knowledge, and with that people choose to value the price of evil rather than forbid it. “And thou shalt not let

According to C.S. we make moral judgments on our own and other peoples actions. He states that there are almost in any situation, there are two factors happening. One is what the person does, and the other is what the person should do. “shoulds” and “oughts” is a set of laws that we judge people by.

I believe moral decision making is more centered on a person than their environmental influences and cultural influences. Sometimes, the environment we are raised in may not affect our way of thinking, although at times we, as people, may say so. One example is from an article I read in my human sexuality class called, “Murder In Amman”. The article focused on the awareness of honor killings in the Middle East, however, as I was reading the interviews, only one of them really seemed to “pop” out the page for me and that was the victim’s father. He strongly spoke out against honor killings and yet he was raised in a society where this was seen as acceptable to save one’s family’s reputation, but the man bravely spoke out against it. This stood

There have been many debates on what to consider morally right or wrong. These deliberations, however, are largely influenced by our own understanding developed through our cultural backgrounds, the way in which we were raised, as well as the experiences we have gathered over time. Different people have different moral views, but those do not decide what should be right or wrong. Nonetheless, there are actions that can be determined objectively and universally as morally right or wrong, provided that Divine or Natural Law acts as reason to direct these inclination.

I see right and wrong as a choice made by a person, let me say a boy for instance. He has a conscience and he knows what he is doing is very bad. He can deceive everybody, and make people think he is a good person, but deep inside of him he knows very well that what he is doing is not right. As the old saying ?what goes up must come down? there is an end to every thing, no matter how long it

I will argue for the view that Morality does depend on religion due to the following: God 's existence, the divine theory, commandments, beliefs and etc. From bibles and scriptures has stated that without God we wouldn 't follow from what 's right and wrong beliefs. Taking such actions to commit and follow and that 's how we would know and develop our moral behavior. In a philosophic term, of morality is the attempt to achieve a systematic understanding of the nature of morality and what it requires of us- in Socrates’ words, of “how we ought to live,” and why. Morality is given in a perspective of minimum conception, in other words, universability, as to something is being proposed to be followed by everyone throughout the entire universe.

Through many forms of media, and the postulation of a cookie-cutter society, we have not only been conditioned to listen to our logic more than our hearts, but we have also been taught that we as individuals have little say in what the picture of right and wrong is in terms of who we really are inside.

In every setting, be it cultural or social, there are the fundamental principles that guide the lives of the people in the area. The guidelines express the desirable actions from the undesirable ones. The society brings up the young ones in the community using the helpful principles as a way of ensuring they lead respectful lives avoiding evil practices. In philosophy, morality is the distinction of the things that are right from those that are not right by the virtue of the principles that guide the particular setting. Many places use religion as the guiding principle in the definition of morality. The primary function of this paper is to consider the relation between religion and morality and the perception of morality from different faiths.

Religion plays a large role in today’s society, it’s used to comfort us in our greatest times of need as well as explain seemingly unknowable questions, such as what is the meaning of life, why are we here, what happens when we die, why do we suffer but now as in the past religion can be a harmful factor in our society. It has been the cause of wars, witch hunts, and proliferated superstition. Today there are such laws that allow a parent to deny their child adequate medical care even if it’s to treat a potentially life threatening illness. In other cases religion is cited as a reason to deny someone access to birth control. In school’s modern science is at times having to contend with creationism which seems to be a reinterpreting of modern science and is in complete opposition with established facts. Other times such things as sex education is taught inaccurately which then leaders to things such as high rates of teen pregnancies and STD’s spreading. In other countries these actions are at times more extreme such as when we hear about suicide bombings, honor killing, and the like. In this paper I will discuss a few of these topics that I find to be pertinent, yet the topics are many. I will discuss the harms that such actions can cause to us as a society both socially and physically due to such harmful laws, I will also discuss the social reasons as to why such actions are performed in the first place and why they may be found to be socially acceptable. Lastly I will speak

Not a single person would define religion, in their own words, the same as anyone else. James Martineau, an English philosopher influential in the history of Unitarianism, once said “Religion is the belief in an ever living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.” Many different people see religion in many different ways. Religion has been an important place in the history of civilization. It gives a meaning and purpose to human life and satisfies man’s longing for peace and salvation. “The essence of religion is a belief in the persistency of value in the world” said Harald Hoffding. Danish philosopher and theologian, of the early 1900’s. Eighty-four percent of the earth’s population believes in some type of religion. Although many people would argue that there is no God, religion was created based on the idea of a greater existence, in the early colonial times, many different religions have thus been formed, and all of these religions still effect our society today.