Via the Humanist Symposium, I found one of the clearest and most concise descriptions of natural human morality that I’ve ever read. Here’s a bit:
Our concept that there is such a thing as right and wrong is hardwired into us by our evolution. We have a sort of universal “moral grammar”, but not a universal “moral language”. For instance: The notion it is wrong to harm an innocent person is universal, but specific notions of who is innocent and who is not innocent are far from being universal.
Read the rest here. As a non-theist who frequently hears from family that it’s “impossible” to find morality without God, this makes so much sense to me.
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Having made a big circle on this issue (Raised steeped in religion, leaving religion, finding MY WAY of including religion in my life) I think it might actually be harder to live a truly moral life in a religious context than without it.
Thank you so much for your kind mention, Alli!
People who think the only role God serves in life is finding morality are kind of missing the point.
Did I say that out loud?