PHILOSOPHY

“Can one be moral and not believe in God?”



“Can one be moral and not believe in God?”

Introduction

Could human beings be moral devoid of being religious? Could we be good devoid of dogma or leaning on a God? The answers to such questions are explicit, which are 'Yes'. Certainly, human beings are not required to believe deity or fit in any religion for doing good or being good. The entire notion of the good about acting good, came before the notion of religion and God. Actually, the term Gog is extraterrestrial to the equation of morality and human goodness. This paper develops an argument on the statement 'Can one be moral and not believe in God?'.

Discussion and Analysis

Across the world there are a number of human beings, which do not have any belief or faith within deity, God or the Supreme Being that is something which dispenses goodness, grace and / or miracles as per its will. A number of human being seven do not admit any agency or agent that is 'supernatural', which act as mediator within the affairs of humans or selectively responds to the prayer by each human being. However, there are a number of human beings that cannot and do not tolerate or accept as true any divine being (willful), which plays with earthquakes, tornados or each sort of natural disaster. These human beings do not promote or support all organized, formal religious expressions or notions of any such 'Supreme Being'. Nonetheless, certainly there are a number of human that will complete be dissimilar to such faiths, and will without a doubt row that these human beings need to me morally wrong, and few might utter that such humans correspond to evilness. Human beings will row that one could not be moral if he or she does not has faith in the Supreme Being, which is not right. As you could be, simultaneously, moral and not have faith in the Supreme Being. Humans who are moral although do not have faith in the Supreme Being may contemplate, for instance, that within the universe there is merely a imaginative doctrine working, and might even admit some wishes that satisfyingly incline in the minds of the human beings the desires for being part of the greater purpose or whole that is the by-product, or the extension, of one's own exclusive knowledge or self-awareness of their ultimate death (Schick, 1995).

For having the senses of moral wrongs or moral rights, we, the human beings, are not required to belong to some religion. This is because of the fact that moral righteousness is normal, and not predicated on faiths that are super natural, because morality is not spiritual interaction, but the product of the social interaction. Regrettably, the misguided notion that human beings could not be good devoid of confessing a faith within God (The Supreme Being), or devoid of belonging to religions, the latter of which is something that is principal within majority of the societies on the ...