Theres nothing wrong with being religious and believing in heaven and hell. If it makes you a better person...than it should be considered a good thing.
Then what is morality? Does in arise as a result of a self-centered fear of purgatpry/ambition for paradise, or as a result of conviction, etc...?
Its us knowing right from wrong. Morality wouldnt exist if there was no God.
thats bullshit. I could posit any number of theories for morality that do not require the existence of a god. A god is an incentive to be moral, and not always the best one.
In Islam, Fitrah is the inherent disposition towards virtue in humanity, and what endows people with the ability to differentiate between right and wrong. According to the Quran, it is the original state in which humans are created by Allah (God).
Allah describes the fitrah of the human soul in the Quran by saying: …and by the soul and He who perfected it! Then He inspired to it (the ability to understand) what is good for it and what is evil for it. Successful is he who purifies it, and failure is he who corrupts it.
Muslims believe every child is born with fitrah, including non-Muslims, and that without external influence, these children would come to worship Allah on their own. As such, every child is born Muslim. Prophet Muhammad emphasized this in a hadith where he said: “Every child is born with the believing nature (al-fitra), it is his parents who make him into a Jew or a Christian.”
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you're jewish, right? so I'm curious as to what the jews believe on this subject about morality.
