Morality can be defined as the principles that govern good behavior. From the novel “Riveted” by Jim Davies (Davies, 2014), we learn about how religion helps defines people’s conduct. We also subsequently learn that religious people find it perplexing as to how atheists could have any morality at all. The tendency for the religious person to belief that anyone cannot be a moral agent without religion would be my target example. What the target example may overlook is the fact that morality is something innate in everybody and one does not necessary have to be religious to be have good morals. I am going to use the class lecture on morality as my base example to help prove my point - that morality is something that everyone has and morality
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I agree with what the author said because every religion is started by an individual or a group of people, and it is the founding fathers morals that get to shape the morals of the religion. Even with this, the religion morals keep on changing has people receive new revelations. Hence we see that everyone is equipped with morality, and religion tries to enforce these morality by attaching rules around them and getting their members tied to these rules. In the book, Riveted, the author hinted to the confirmation bias that religious people face, in-that some religious people may change their minds about whether something is morally acceptable or not and then claim that God agrees with the their new moral stance. This way of thinking can be denoted has a confirmation bias because they accept, seek out, and remember things that support their view. They also interpret things in a way that support their views. Since God is invisible, people tend to attribute their own moral beliefs to God, rather than try to change what they think is right or wrong according to some objective judgement about what God thinks. Since they cannot directly know what God is thinking, this unfortunately leads to the confirmation bias where the substitute their beliefs for that of God and think their beliefs are …show more content…
They are more susceptible into believing that God agrees with them even more than they think other people agree with them. Religious people may also be prone to the belief bias because religious people infer that just because they are able to live a moral life that this reflects the hand of God in their lives; however, this notion is a half-truth. It is because in the book, Riveted, the author goes into great lengths to show that Atheist are capable of living a highly moral life without religion, so according to this premise religious people suffer from a belief bias in-that they think that they are the only ones capable of living a moral life. In Riveted, the author goes to say that just about all of us have morals. The difference between the religious and the atheist is that the atheist do not try to justify their morals with a religion. Religious people may view themselves as more moral than atheist because they may suffer from the just world phenomenon. They may view the world has ultimately being a just place; hence religious people will have more of a tendency to blame people for their lack of morality as a result of them not believing in a God. This all too well creates a divide between Atheism and religion. Atheists typically see religion as irrational as noted in the book, Riveted. The benefit of religion as stated by the author of Riveted,
I agree with what the author said because every religion is started by an individual or a group of people, and it is the founding fathers morals that get to shape the morals of the religion. Even with this, the religion morals keep on changing has people receive new revelations. Hence we see that everyone is equipped with morality, and religion tries to enforce these morality by attaching rules around them and getting their members tied to these rules. In the book, Riveted, the author hinted to the confirmation bias that religious people face, in-that some religious people may change their minds about whether something is morally acceptable or not and then claim that God agrees with the their new moral stance. This way of thinking can be denoted has a confirmation bias because they accept, seek out, and remember things that support their view. They also interpret things in a way that support their views. Since God is invisible, people tend to attribute their own moral beliefs to God, rather than try to change what they think is right or wrong according to some objective judgement about what God thinks. Since they cannot directly know what God is thinking, this unfortunately leads to the confirmation bias where the substitute their beliefs for that of God and think their beliefs are …show more content…
They are more susceptible into believing that God agrees with them even more than they think other people agree with them. Religious people may also be prone to the belief bias because religious people infer that just because they are able to live a moral life that this reflects the hand of God in their lives; however, this notion is a half-truth. It is because in the book, Riveted, the author goes into great lengths to show that Atheist are capable of living a highly moral life without religion, so according to this premise religious people suffer from a belief bias in-that they think that they are the only ones capable of living a moral life. In Riveted, the author goes to say that just about all of us have morals. The difference between the religious and the atheist is that the atheist do not try to justify their morals with a religion. Religious people may view themselves as more moral than atheist because they may suffer from the just world phenomenon. They may view the world has ultimately being a just place; hence religious people will have more of a tendency to blame people for their lack of morality as a result of them not believing in a God. This all too well creates a divide between Atheism and religion. Atheists typically see religion as irrational as noted in the book, Riveted. The benefit of religion as stated by the author of Riveted,