Playing Tug-of-War: Magisteriums Fight over Dictating Morality
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Deeply religious people, regardless of their religion, tend to presuppose the truth of their belief. Their desire to proselytise and “reveal the truth” undermines the simple idea of what a belief is. In the Abrahamic faiths, especially Christianity, they claim that God retains the right to set standards of moral behaviour, and without an omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient being of creation, there is no such thing as morality. However, morality is not reliant on the Christian faith, or any faith. This presentation details other explanations of the origin of morality, and the role of morality in the larger conflict between liberalism and conservatism in the United States.
Author: Williams, Naomi
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7004929196
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