Imagining a community that loses entire moral standards and orders: no controls, no rules, and no laws, so people may do everything they desire to do freely. However, due to humans' instinct of the endless desire which leads to avarice, sometimes they neglect the responsibility and righteousness then do something heinous in order to reach their goals. If the group effect was considered in this point, people without any moral restrictions on individual in that community so they can be deteriorated easily. These "bad" people will bring the chaos to the community, and this issue leads to develop an internecine society. If that happens, humanity cannot get any progress, and the human civilization has to be extinct. This virtual chaotic community reversely demonstrates the importance of the ethics in a society. The moral framework provides criteria to communities, conducts people to do the appropriate things, and ensures society to keep a steady order. In religions the ethical rules and laws usually involved in scriptures. Jews, Christians and Muslims by studying and reciting the Hebrew Bible, Holy Bible and Qur'an every day, the particular moral standards rooted in their mind. They know what should do and what should avoid in their daily lives, and they can accord to the rules to judge behaviors or cases.
Family is the basic unit of the society. Marriage unifies a man and a woman to build a family, generate offspring, and educate children. This is not only a personal affair because humanity needs myriad complete families to continue the civilization in the world. Men and women come together then become lovers, then via marriage they become couples. In the Hebrew Bible, also the first book of the Torah, it demonstrated how male and fe...
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... corroded inevitably, but the religious ethics is a guide, which leads people go into the correct ways, and then good thoughts result in the positive ethos. Even though the religions are not omnipotent, the ethics in religions is an inseparable spiritual component for a healthy society.
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The Apostle Paul, urged wives to obey their husbands and husband to respect their wives. This sums up the traditional idea of the family throughout Jewish history as pictured in the Bible. The man was the head of the house, however both man and woman worked together for the benefit of the family. In Ancient Israel, it was the parents who used to find a suitable match for their daughters’. One the suitable match is found, the bride’s family gives the daughter to the groom’s family and in return they were given a gift – a dowry. A married couple was an economic partnership, that is, if the man ended up penniless, his wife would be sold in slavery along with him. The wife’s first duty in the family was to give birth. A boy would’ve been preferred in order to continue her husband’s name. Children were taught by their mothers’ the required technical skills needed to participate in and eventually take over the productive and processing tasks of the family household. If a wife couldn’t conceive, she would give the family’s slave to her husband and any offspring would give the wife the ...
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