Sikander Butshikan, Sultan of Kashmir

[Hamza913]

I can agree with morals being a byproduct of society but I don't think it's limited to religion. Even without religion, people can be kind, honest, compassionate, etc. Otherwise, how do you explain similar moral values within different religions or in people who don't have religion? Even in the past, you didn't have to belong to any particular religion to have morals. And claiming that any one religion is more moral, or to claim that someone is immoral just cause he is from another religion is simply personal bias.

Without religion, it's based on societies desires. Just because certain desires are more prevalent, doesn't make them more right. For a long time, rape was considered okay in many cultures. They all had that in common, does that make it moral? Of course not. Objective morality only exists for those of us who choose to follow a religion with a rigid set of rules.

Abrahamic faiths are the only ones as far as I know that offer a rigid set of rules. All the other major ones have rules so fluid and loose they might as well be non-existent, so they don't count.

 

[Hamza913]

Asalamu Alaikum

@waz

Could I please get this thread moved to the history section?