The Idea of Morality Cannot Work Without the Existence of God

The Idea of Morality Cannot Work Without the Existence of God

Morality is the set of concepts about wha tis good or bad, right or

wrong, in human charater or conduct. God demands that moral judgements

are universal and based on religion. However, other schools of

thought, e.g. the ideology of Anarchy, claim that if this 'morality

made by god' is the case, then 'each person is his own god'. We must

first understand how morality 'works' and then see if this method of

working is possible without the existence of God.

The dictionary refers to morality as: 'moral principles or rules;

goodness or rightousness'. How does this definition apply to the real

world? How does society make it work? Historically, the church has

been the source of morality in all religions and texts like the Bible

and the Qu'ran set out 'rules' to abide by, for example the ten

commandments. It is the belief of Christians that to follow these

rules is to be morally correct. It would seem therefore that morality

as we know it has been formed by the church and therefore formed by

the belief of God. This is a strong argument that without the

existence of God, moral principles would never have been established

and therefore morality as we know it would not function.

However, in societies where Religion is not compulsery and is not

endorsed by many, are morals still held? Using Britain as an example,

i would say yes. I believe the state has replaced the church as the

imposer of morals through the law and making certain things socially

acceptable. For example, one of the 10 commandmants says 'thou shalt

not steal or thou shall go to hell'. The st...

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cannot work.

Is a person's sole motive to be good to go to heaven? If humans knew

this life was the only existence we had would they be more ruthless

and have less- or no- morality? I believe this would not be the case.

If this existence was our only existence people would still want to be

as happy as possible and have the same positive relationships with

others. They would therefore still employ a set of morals to live by

and still have morality.

To conclude, I believe that morality can be carried on (would 'work')

whether God exists or not. To this extent i believe the title is

inaccurate. However, it is very likely that God created man and

therefore created the concept of morality in both society and on an

individual level. In this sense morality is entirely dependent of God.