Can There Be Morality Without God?

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Can There Be Morality Without God?

Overtime, morality and the aspect of religion have consistently been inseparable. Most individuals tend to believe that the former can be comprehended solely in the milieu of religion. For instance, in most religious frameworks, clergypersons and people deemed as religious are therefore viewed as moral professionals who provide sound advice. Furthermore, the aspects of right and wrong have been used to define morality. As such, religion has assumed an imperative position in defining what constitutes morality. This is rather evident based on the manner in which society operates. Simply, it is difficult to find communities that possess a religion without a morality, or the former without a latter. This is further illustrated by the considerable role that religious institutions such as the church have assumed in establishing moral regulations and rules. Nonetheless, it is possible to assert that morality can exist without God. Even though both are synonymous, morality is not dependent on religion. The Divine Command conjecture alleges that all that is morally right is mandated by God and vice versa. However, this establishes that the directives made by God are arbitrary. Additionally, the use of religion to derive moral issues fails to account for key problems such as abortion. By failing to use reason and following religion, such issues become impossible to deal with rationally. Eventually, they result in biased judgments regarding such issues. Furthermore, the moral problems faced contemporarily may be different from those experienced in the Bible’s Jews and ancient Christian writers. Accordingly, the common assistive moral guidance that the canon provides is considerably unlikely to provide people with authoritative responses to modern problems such as medical research financing, workers’ rights, and the disappearance of species. As such, morality should be based on reason rather than religion.