The Importance Of Moral Truth

Have you ever been confused about what moral truth really means or what it is about? Moral truth, in my opinion, is a big picture, which is collected and puzzled from small pieces coming from combination of religion science, and experiences. They have a strong relationship because each of them supports the others’ frameworks and strengthen them into bigger ideas that have specific influences to people’s mind.

First at all, even though science is not always correct 100%, it is still an acceptable source of truth that is reliable enough for people to trust in. Science supplies researches that data and reports find out how people think and accept moral truth from science in different ways. They explain what are occurring around lives and persuade

Paul Bloom claims on his article “Religion, Morality, Evolution” that: “One consideration is the universality of religious ideology”. Most people totally trust in religion, especially Christians and Islam. He sees that people engage in various religious practices, such as circumcision and church going and obeying dietary restrictions, and most of them also hold religious views of lives, such as believing in God or in life after death. Consequently, religion has an essential impact into creating central morally truth to people. Moreover, religion also affects to people’s behavior and emotion. Paul Bloom says that: “Religion might turn dials of compassion. Religious beliefs and practices might increase one’s empathy and caring and love.” When people study religious lessons, they become nicer because they know how to behave to other people, how to share happiness and sadness to the others. People, who are religious, would donate more money to charities. They are volunteers, and they are always willing to help the needy, the elderly, and the young. They are also more generous toward the others and less likely to cheat the other ones. Lastly, they can prevent themselves from doing wrong things and causing serious problems. Nevertheless, there are some ultra-religions that don’t help people.

Firstly, people need to look at experiences carefully and then, based on those ones that are reliable enough for people to accept and follow, they would be improved into moral truth. For example, Paul Bloom shares his research on children when he asks them to draw the shape of the Earth. He says: “Children’s beliefs that unsupported objects fall downward are adaptive in the world we live in, but it hard for them to see the world as sphere” (In Science We Trust – paragraph 9 – page 45). Their views will not improve until the age of about twelve or thirteen that children demonstrate a coherent understanding of a spherical Earth. Beside, Paul also claims that moral truth is created over effects from other people’s beliefs. In his report, he shows how Christian parents’ points of view influence to their children’s minds. Parents have more experiences, thus they tend to lead their children to have the same views with them, such as in existence of Goodness. Their ideas might be nice or bad because they depend on how people have the views and opinions about them. Nothing is totally correct so that if people consider thoroughly choosing suitable experiences, they could have a great basis of belief. It is not pretty wonderful but at least people could minimize the percentage that mistakes could