How Could God Provide Morality Before God Existed


Every once in a while, someone posts a comment here or I read the same thinking in a published article. The thinking is that the Bible gave humans "morality" and an atheist society will have none. It is an idea so far-fetched you can't see it from here. 

Humans have been here for about 300,000 years. Christianity for 2,000 years. To include Judaism we can add 5,000 or so more years. Whenever humans stopped roaming about finding food and started staying in one place growing their own food the one god showed up. One, instead of several gods, was easier for the rulers. Being the best friend of one god is more efficient than trying to pull that off for several. 

So, where did the morality of humans come from before the recent appearance of God and the Bible? As discussed here many times before, the morality of humans came from humans. They learned they could not murder and steal from family and clan members at will and organize into successful families and clans. They needed some rules and followed them. Self interest, not imaginary gods or spirits, gave humans rules which we now call "morality." It may well have been prehistoric people, like modern people, told each other the rules came from a god. Both then and now they came from the practical minds of humans. 

I've only seen one study which tried to establish whether or not Christian people have higher morals than atheists. That study compared the religious preference of people in jail. Those who marked "Christian" on the intake forms were compared to those who marked "no religion." The percentage of Christians in jail exceeded the percentage of Christians in the population. The percentage of atheists was smaller than it percentage in the population. Christians are more likely to be in jail than atheists. If being in jail reflects moral character Christians have less. When I mentioned this study before Christians posted that those in jail cannot be "good Christians." Chuck Colson claimed to be a Christian of the first order. Also Jim Bakker. 

Claiming to be a better Christian than others is part of culture in Christianity.

That Christianity or the Bible is the source of "morality" is one of the most ridiculous claims of the faith. 

  

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