Playing Tug-of-War: Magisteriums Fight over Dictating Morality

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.