What are your thoughts on the concept of morality without religion?

Marco Almeida©

@bigcanadiano

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There can be no religion without morality. Only when you learn to practice morality that if you replace religion without morality - what are we left with? It's practically impossible. The philosophy of true religion is based in theurgical theory, which has divinity involved.

@shacktoms

I think the point of morality is to serve consciousness, thus improving the conscious experience. I identify consciousness with the divine, so we serve consciousness by serving both God and our fellow human beings. Morality that neglects the divine is, at best, incomplete. It risks mistaking the temporal for the ultimate, creating a rift. Essentially as Plotinus warned. But religion is also tricky. There is the awful (some say demonic) temptation to elevate the experience in itself, rather than as it is revelatory of the divine. And this temptation is greatest when the experience is most transparent of the holy.

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There is a universal law of physics and psychiatrics I call the "Law of Congregation". Basically, unless all members of a congregation follow a specific set of protocols, the end result is chaos. There is no way to get the lower 30% to follow without making them fear a god.

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Marco Almeida©

@bigcanadiano

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The fear of god makes us incomplete. (In theory only.) If I am wrong, which I could be, makes this logic complete. Morality is therefore, not absolute. What we learn makes us complete in our understanding of this role we play morally. Subsequently is the evil from within. ------------------------------------------------------------------

Plato practiced no religion but his ideas played a strong role in the development of Judaism & Christianity. Augustine was thoroughly Neo-Platonist while Aquinas was influence by his student Aristotle. The writer Philo wrote extensively on Judaism using Platonic ideas of a force for good in the universe.

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Marco Almeida©

@bigcanadiano

If all religion is philosophy. Then there must be an equal which would manifest the opposite of good. Evil being the ratio from which we CAN measure. If Trump is any indication without labelling him as the antichrist. At the very least he is a fascist. Without morals.