Here’s a question I came across in my current reading. Is religion the basis for ethics, or ethics the basis for religion?
Well, I claim the later (partly) but keep getting told the former. In fact, I keep getting told that I owe my morals to one specific religion – the Christian religion.
So this cartoon struck a chord. Amazing how chauvinistic some humans can be when it comes to beliefs and ethics.
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Sam Harris has just written an interesting book “The Moral Landscape: How Science can Determine Human Values” which should be arriving on my doorstep in the next week or two.
It will provide an interesting counter to the idea that religion is necessary to determine ethics and values.
http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/the-moral-landscape/
Sam has also given a short TED presentation on the subject
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sfGw98pVCA