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Fictional religion leads to Moral Uncertainty |
Believers believe that their beliefs lead to moral certainty and gives society a clear set of rules to follow that everyone understands. In fact the opposite is true. Believers accuse realists of having their own individual realities and use their freedoms as a thinly veiled excuse to selfishly commit sin and pursue a life of material wealth. They believe instead that everyone should follow the one, true path to salvation or enlightenment. Sounds like a simple solution except for one little problem. They aren't offering a true path to follow.
Just as realists have personal reality, or rather personal experiences of realities, believers have personal fiction. All believers believe something different. In order to create moral certainty you have to start out with something that is purported to be certain, then you test it to see if it's moral. But believers haven't gotten past the first step of putting some sort of belief system on the table to test.
Before the idea of imposing biblical law can be taken seriously, Christianity has to first agree on what the Bible means.
Christians, for example, put forth the Bible and say that this should be the reference book for moral certainty. But the Bible is extremely self contradictory and imprecise and everyone has their own interpretation of what the Bible says. The fact that there are over 10,000 denominations of Christians proves my point. If those who are promoting the Bible can't agree on what it means then how are we heathens going to figure it out?
Believers have a poor record when it comes to morality. Collectively, history is full of atrocities committed in the name of God. These atrocities continue today. Islam is a religion that is far too comfortable with brutal murder. In the Church of Reality it is a moral certainty that stoning people to death is absolutely wrong under all circumstances. The Church of Reality challenges Islam to agree with us. Many religions believe that it is acceptable to murder people who believe what they believe. Many Christians are comfortable with it. We in the Church of Reality assert that it is a moral certainty that killing people because they don't believe what you believe is morally wrong. We challenge believers to agree with us.
If God is telling you to kill someone, you aren't talking to God. Many of the holy books that fiction based religions rely upon are filled to brutal murder that is religiously justified. The "good guys" are doing the murdering. God is depicted as a mass murderer and is glorified for his insanity. And this is the model that we realists are supposed to accept as moral certainty? We don't think so!
We in the Church of Reality challenge believers to make reality part of your quest for moral certainty.
We in the Church of Reality believe that you won't get to the truth by living the lie. We believe that the quest for moral certainty has to be rooted in reality and has to be reality based. We have made it one of our Sacred Missions to ask the sacred moral question which is: what is the right thing to do based on reality. We believe that it is a moral certainty that the exploration of right and wrong and law should be based upon reality as opposed to fiction. We believe that morality should be debated and explored and that reality should be integral to the moral debate. We believe that taking reality into consideration will more likely lead to a better decision about morality than if reality is ignored. We therefore challenge all religions to make the consideration of reality part of their process in the quest for moral certainty.
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