Difference Between Religion And Morality

Many arguments have been made over whether or not religion and morality are interconnected. It is quite difficult to find a well rounded definition of religion or morality due to everyone having different perceptions of both of the words. The word religion comes from the Latin words Religio or Religare both have similar meanings, a bond/bind (Diener, 1997). Merriam-Webster dictionary defines religion as "a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith (Religion).” Morality comes from the Latin word mores meaning character or manner (Diener, 1997). Morality is also defined by the Merriem-Webster dictionary as "beliefs about what is right behavior and what is wrong behavior (Morality).” Paul Diener states that all

Another separation of religiosity and morality is their separate duties, moral duties don’t have to be religious, and vice versus (Diender, 1997). Morals are about whats happening on earth, and religion is about both the earth and beyond (Diender, 1997). Morality is an ingrained human trait, meaning that it can be separate religion (Dinder, 1997), but only if a person believes that religion is not a human

The third argument of morality and religion needing to be relational makes most sense. It would create more peace among the believer and non-believers because people wouldn 't feel like they would have to be in one group or the other. Although this idea sounds great in theory, it would be extremely hard to enforce this type of idea, because people are very set in their own beliefs. I do think that morality and religion are interconnected. Both morality and religion are in the world, there are morals in religion, but morals don 't always come from religion. They are connected in a way but can also be separate at the same time. We as people have a tendency to group ourselves to separate the “in-group” from the “out-group”, causing a fracture between the groups (Religion and Morality, 2014). If people were able to see the relational side of the argument, that morals and religion aren 't inseparable nor are they just separable but could be both this would result in less fracturing between groups of