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<blockquote data-quote="henschman" data-source="post: 1826881" data-attributes="member: 4235"><p>Religion's monopoly on morality has been very harmful to the field of morality/ethics. In ancient Greece and Rome, morality and ethics were serious fields of philosophical inquiry as to how man should act. This was rarely the case in the mysticist-dominated Eastern world, which mostly defined "morality" as either what some ancient manuscripts say, or what some thug and his sponsored witch doctors say (or some variation of both). Invariably, mysticist religions propagated a moral code which required that man not live for his own interests, but must always place the interests of others above his own. A consistent practice of this form of morality invariably results in the death of the practitioner, and the only reason adherents of this view of morality manage to live is through by exercising whatever forms of self-interest their own repressed survival instincts allow them. When faced with the fact that their "morality" is not compatible with the requirements of man's survival, rather than concede that they were wrong, the witch doctors rebel against reality and answer that this world is evil, that man is evil and corrupt by nature, and that his only hope for happiness is in renunciation of happiness in this world for the hope of happiness in the next. Adherents to this sort of philosophy are always plagued by chronic guilt and insecurity... which make them easy to keep in line, which is why thugs who rule with brute force have always found it convenient to sponsor the propagators of such forms of morality.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately this Eastern (or more specifically middle-eastern) mysticist notion of morality came to dominate the Western world after the fall of Rome, resulting in the Dark Ages. Though mankind has achieved a great increase in his standard of living since then, thanks to the advent of capitalism, both man and capitalism are stymied by mysticist religion's stranglehold on the field of morality and ethics. This will be the case as long as man turns to ancient scriptures and the babblings of witch doctors as the source of morality, rather than on his capacity for perceiving reality and his capacity for applying reason to it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I would kill for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="henschman, post: 1826881, member: 4235"] Religion's monopoly on morality has been very harmful to the field of morality/ethics. In ancient Greece and Rome, morality and ethics were serious fields of philosophical inquiry as to how man should act. This was rarely the case in the mysticist-dominated Eastern world, which mostly defined "morality" as either what some ancient manuscripts say, or what some thug and his sponsored witch doctors say (or some variation of both). Invariably, mysticist religions propagated a moral code which required that man not live for his own interests, but must always place the interests of others above his own. A consistent practice of this form of morality invariably results in the death of the practitioner, and the only reason adherents of this view of morality manage to live is through by exercising whatever forms of self-interest their own repressed survival instincts allow them. When faced with the fact that their "morality" is not compatible with the requirements of man's survival, rather than concede that they were wrong, the witch doctors rebel against reality and answer that this world is evil, that man is evil and corrupt by nature, and that his only hope for happiness is in renunciation of happiness in this world for the hope of happiness in the next. Adherents to this sort of philosophy are always plagued by chronic guilt and insecurity... which make them easy to keep in line, which is why thugs who rule with brute force have always found it convenient to sponsor the propagators of such forms of morality. Unfortunately this Eastern (or more specifically middle-eastern) mysticist notion of morality came to dominate the Western world after the fall of Rome, resulting in the Dark Ages. Though mankind has achieved a great increase in his standard of living since then, thanks to the advent of capitalism, both man and capitalism are stymied by mysticist religion's stranglehold on the field of morality and ethics. This will be the case as long as man turns to ancient scriptures and the babblings of witch doctors as the source of morality, rather than on his capacity for perceiving reality and his capacity for applying reason to it. I would kill for it. [/QUOTE]
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