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leekburn t1_je4t8d9 wrote

Reply to comment by Efficient-Squash5055 in Seeing Through Kant and Bentham and Arguing the Moral Question of Saving Lives by adarsh_badri

So you believe that the religion that someone chooses to identify with is one that already closely aligns to the moral compass that they already have inside of them? Kinda like putting a label on your morals and beliefs?

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Efficient-Squash5055 t1_je4zzey wrote

Yea I think so. Well to the extent that one seeks a religion after childhood, you know after the stage we are indoctrinated by everything around us in early years.

As obviously there is the dynamic that kids will adopt predominant cultural beliefs as their own; which is why 99.9 percent of middle eastern children identify as Islam in adulthood (as example).

Though if one was neutral or ambivalent on the subject until adulthood and began looking for a “higher power”- I’m pretty sure they will seek a sect which allows them to be who they already are. Someone geared toward hateful thinking, vengeful punitive thinking would no doubt align to the more negative barbaric religions with a “cause”. I’m remembering all the westerners who subscribed to sharia law and negative forms of Islam through the past age of “terrorism”.

They found a “higher power” that gave them authority to be who they already were. Likewise a person largely compassionate/forgiving by nature would never accept such a “higher power”.

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