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Is "morality" merely a freestanding "belief" in the innate rightness or wrongness of a given thing? Or is morality, itself, defined by and subject to even higher, more rigorous cosmic laws, that are susceptible of proof, demonstration, illustration, which lay at the base of all mankind and all "civilization," dating back, literally, tens of thousands of years?
Given this latter question, one need not ask whether morality and religion are one and the same. They are clearly not. Religion evolved from the same spiritual source as morality and other disciplines, like mathematics, astronomy, art, music, agriculture, navigation. Yet, being divorced from its source, religion, as others named, lost its spiritual reference point from whence it devolved, and became that which was right in each man's or each culture's or epoch's, own eyesight or belief.
I would postulate that the base of morality is rooted in and deduced from ancient geometry, from whence it derives its universal, conceptional, predictable impulses. Geometry is susceptible of proof, demonstration, illustration, and is embodied in the yet-extant mystifying, ancient megaliths dotting the earth's equatorial belt. Its spirit also suffuses all numbering systems, mathematics, astronomy, agriculture, navigation, art, construction, music, human laws, magic, writing, medicine, etc.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/morality
Is "morality" merely a freestanding "belief" in the innate rightness or wrongness of a given thing? Or is morality, itself, defined by and subject to even higher, more rigorous cosmic laws, that are susceptible of proof, demonstration, illustration, which lay at the base of all mankind and all "civilization," dating back, literally, tens of thousands of years?
Given this latter question, one need not ask whether morality and religion are one and the same. They are clearly not. Religion evolved from the same spiritual source as morality and other disciplines, like mathematics, astronomy, art, music, agriculture, navigation. Yet, being divorced from its source, religion, as others named, lost its spiritual reference point from whence it devolved, and became that which was right in each man's or each culture's or epoch's, own eyesight or belief.
I would postulate that the base of morality is rooted in and deduced from ancient geometry, from whence it derives its universal, conceptional, predictable impulses. Geometry is susceptible of proof, demonstration, illustration, and is embodied in the yet-extant mystifying, ancient megaliths dotting the earth's equatorial belt. Its spirit also suffuses all numbering systems, mathematics, astronomy, agriculture, navigation, art, construction, music, human laws, magic, writing, medicine, etc.