Morality for Dummies
Our ability to communicate enhanced our ability to cooperate with each other, allowing us to leverage our limited physicality to survive and grow. Humanity developed values that express that practicality and recognizes the non-material aspect of our strength. Our power over the material world comes from our metaphysical abilities such as innovation, ideas and cooperation.
Morality is practical. There are root values that are classic to the secular and religious alike: trust, empathy, humility, courage and wisdom. Remember wisdom?
Hatred is basic to immorality. Greed and envy require hatred or can not be maintained.
Thought is our strength. Hatred is thoughtless. They don’t mix, making hatred the arguable bane of humanity.
The first literal sin of the bible was when Cain hated Abel, called “wroth” in the King James version. “Modern” English bibles have mistranslated what was “wroth” to “anger”. I can get angry when I think about it, which is possible because anger and thought aren’t exclusive of each other. If it’s not threatening, anger should acknowledged.
What are they saving hate for? Without anger, it will be easier for the status quo to use hatred to try to divide us.
There is an epidemic of immorality. Let’s put the hatred back home again as the first sin.
Anger can be legitimate. Don’t be defenseless.
We must secularly recognize hatred as the bane of humanity and the personality disorder that it is.
Thank you for your time.
