• Religion contain all three aspect of human life
• Cognition
• Conative - morality
• Affection - artistic pursuit
• At present all different - Art for art sake , Morality for morality sake
• Alvin Plantinga- Linguistic convention maintain no free action can be totally determines
• Flew & Mackie - god could have created free will man + fully determined him to stop falling in immoral act
Y N Harari - Identity , Medicine ,
Religion & Morality independent & inseparable
• Fear & Favour , reward mech
• God conservator avtar, source of all morality
• Freud - Man able to give cruel & aggressive impulse within him in name of G ex - G & K Naga - head hunting tribe after Christianity
• Golden principle in religion - Do not do to others what you don’t want to be done to u
• 10 commandments, pancha mahavrat
• Charity & compassion - langar community kitchen , Daan - donation in
• religion lead to morality and vice versa
• Moral stories
• Ashoka left violence
• Can control passion , craving
• Kant & braith waite - religion & G psychological booster, performance of duty is not easy task , it should be regarded as divine command
• Nishkama karma , upaya kaushal , rigvedic aryan gave up animal sacrifice
• Gandhi - The purer I try to bcom , the nearer I feel to god
• Morality is purifier of religion and religion is said to be perfection of morality
Morality is autonomous and independent of religion
• Conscience, innate
• Secular CoC Dhamma - ashoka edict -
• Good is good in itself
• Even atheist , non-religion person - live in morality EU
• Moral derives from ethics, utilitarianism , virtues ethics, hr , justice etc
• Ideology of communism & democracy denounce religion
• Violence in religion - crusade holy war , child & human sacrifice
• Religious terrorism , genocide
• Gender discrimination , devadasi , sati system
• Caste discrimination - untouchability
• Misuse of religious doctrine by corrupt gurus - MSG Asharam - selfish gains
Kant - morality is good not bcoz god will its , but god wills it is good (autonomy of moral )
Morality leads to religion, god can't create values
Religion are autonomous
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