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What is the coalition between religion and ethics?
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The coalition between religion and ethics is that God has, through his prophets (and for Christians, His son) on earth, laid down a set of laws (commandments for Christians) that are pleasing to God and which dictate that men should love one another and be loyal to God. The ethical part of those laws is that men should love another (ie treat each other with respect and kindness). The religious part of those laws is that men should be loyal to God.
This part of this answer is my opinion. All of the above being said, ethics can exist without God. Any time people treat each other with respect and brotherly love, they treat each other ethically. A loyalty to God is not necessary for ethical treatment to occur.
All the religions I’ve heard of derive their ethical beliefs from divine theory. Most people who have a faith believe that a central God figure has given them, through other people, all the rules they need to live by. As stated above, in all religions that believe in a central God figure, those rules generally include guidelines for loyalty to the God figure and guidelines for the ethical treatment of other people. People who believe in a central God figure believe that because God says you should treat other people ethically, you have to do it and that it is ethical to do so.
From Wikipedia.org
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Divine command theory is the meta-ethical view about the semantics or meaning of ethical sentences, which claims that ethical sentences express propositions, some of which are true, about the attitudes of God. That is, it claims that sentences such as "charity is good" mean the same thing as sentences such as "God commands charity".
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This part of this answer is my opinion. All of the above being said, ethics can exist without God. Any time people treat each other with respect and brotherly love, they treat each other ethically. A loyalty to God is not necessary for ethical treatment to occur.
All the religions I’ve heard of derive their ethical beliefs from divine theory. Most people who have a faith believe that a central God figure has given them, through other people, all the rules they need to live by. As stated above, in all religions that believe in a central God figure, those rules generally include guidelines for loyalty to the God figure and guidelines for the ethical treatment of other people. People who believe in a central God figure believe that because God says you should treat other people ethically, you have to do it and that it is ethical to do so.
From Wikipedia.org
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Divine command theory is the meta-ethical view about the semantics or meaning of ethical sentences, which claims that ethical sentences express propositions, some of which are true, about the attitudes of God. That is, it claims that sentences such as "charity is good" mean the same thing as sentences such as "God commands charity".
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