MORALITY – WHAT IS IT, WHO MANUFACTURES IT, WHO ESTABLISHES THE STANDARDS, WHO ENFORCES THE QUALITY OF THE PRODUCT, WHO BUYS IT AND ARE THERE GENERIC SUBSTITUTES?

If morality was a product we could ask the above questions, according to who you talk to the answers would be as different as night and day.

What nobody will tell you is that morality is a constant; it is in existence long before religion can even be created and it is morality that gives religion the goodness and righteousness that gives faith, the belief system and the reason for existing.

Morality is a system of ideas and values concerning what is right and wrong behavior. It is the quality of being in accord with this particular standard – according to The American Heritage Dictionary.

But long before there was even religion morality was already in place in early man. After thousands of years of trial and error, after observations that were handed down from father to son, after man himself began to become more rational, it was then that morality appeared. It appeared out of necessity, it came into being because man found out that if he killed your brother you could come back and kill his sister. It is sort of reciprocity this morality thing.

Since man is a rational, thinking being he also began to get curious…he started to question the environment around him and finally the origin of it all…where did he come from and why was he…well..himself?

The need to answer these questions that are obviously without an answer gave birth to religion.”Religion is defined as the belief in and reverence towards a supernatural power understood to be the creator and ruler of the universe. It is the collection of doctrine that supports the belief system.  Religion is the shared emotional and spiritual beliefs held by its' followers”*

Even if religion and morality are two separate entities and sets of ideas at some point religion saw it necessary to incorporate morality into its sets of beliefs. In other words, religion hijacked morality as an integral part of that faith and codified it into doctrine thus making it inseparable from dogma.

The problem is, as Roger Poladoupoulus so aptly points out “When religion allows itself to be contaminated and manipulated by humans, it loses sight of its' collective tenets and truths. The contaminators and manipulators become the cancerous cells infecting the body of the faithful thus religion becomes blinded by the destructive invasion. The result is that religion becomes separated from morality. The two no longer work together for the greater good and benefit of all. When this happens, religion becomes an instrument of hate and evil as it has severed itself from morality, that which is good and right”.

I do think that religion and morality are independent of one another, they can exist side by side or they can exist together acting synergistically to offer mankind guidance and some solutions to his problems. The problem however is that religion, in its quest to prevail, survive, thrive and dominate then abandons morality for the sake of greed and power. It is exactly what makes religion useless and harmful.

Roger further states: “Once it abandons morality, religion loses its' validity. It no longer enjoys the goodness and righteousness that gives faith, the belief system, its' essence. It is a ship adrift without captain and crew. Religion has no reason to exist as it has undermined itself through hatred, decadence and false prophets. There is no longer the truth as a basic foundation because the truth was discarded, ignored and forgotten. The God of Love; of acceptance, tolerance and understanding was rejected just as the followers of the hypocrites and haters turned their backs on their GLBT brothers and sisters. The message of fairness and justice that religion once delivered to the faithful no longer has any meaning to its' flock nor to the world-at-large.”

Man created religion in his quest to find answers…answers at that time and even today, that have not appeared nor will they ever. It is because our limited intelligence, our backwardness and inability to comprehend the nature of the universe and the speculation that there is some entity with unlimited knowledge and power to have created it and to be guiding it or supervising it if you will. This whole concept exists only in the minds of religious people and it has to be pointed out that it is not the truth, not the absolute truth they claim it to be.

A lot of Christians firmly believe that if there was no religion there would be no morality either. But I strongly disagree. I happen to know a lot of agnostics and atheists whose morals far outshine those who call themselves Christians.

As for myself, just because I am not intelligent enough to understand the origins of the universe and my own ignorance as to if some supernatural entity created all this…I refuse to make up outlandish explanations, I am not one to accept fabricated fairy tales that are more outrageous than the simple explanations that are there: that we are not intelligent enough to tackle such questions but are too dumb to offer substitutes.

Religion became unreasonable after it abandoned morality and it also adopted sexual behavior and the relations between humans as part of that morality. It became so preoccupied with sexual behavior simply because in the quest of religion to totally dominate man and make a slave out of him it became necessary to repress sexuality, to control it and to marginalize it as something out of the bounds of morality.

Thus we see that man has an innate need to love and be loved but that religion has intruded and told him that it is immoral to love and be loved. Morality here went out the window when religion misinterpreted it and polluted it.

But also, in order to have sexuality incorporated into this false morality thing, religion made it imperative that sexual behavior be criminalized, penalized and included into a set of hatreds and misconceptions. Thus the explanation for the homophobia found in so many religions today.

The need to criminalize love between people of the same sex had its origins early in the history of man when a single plague could easily wipe out humans from the face of the earth. Thus it became imperative that man procreated and did so prolifically in order to have human survival. But today things are quite different; we have extended longevity and found cures for many of the ailments that killed our ancestors. This little blue marble called earth is overpopulated and getting a lot worse. There will come a time in the very near future that we will not be able to sustain such high levels of overpopulation.

Enter 15% of that population that is GENETICALLY inclined to love others of the same sex and not procreate and you actually have a blessing! If only the other 85% would act responsibly and only breed to replace themselves and not contribute to the overpopulation problem.

* Roger Poladopoulos

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