Religion
In reply to the discussion: Where do you atheists get your morals? [View all]D23MIURG23
(2,833 posts)God can't be a source until you actually show some evidence that it exists. Asserting that your morals come from god is the same thing as asserting that they come from a flying spaghetti monster.
Religious beliefs can inform morality, but religious beliefs aren't first principals; they have origins. If I am a hindu, my religiously informed morality is different than yours would be if you were a muslim. Religious books and clergy are the sources we can actually verify that shape religious belief, so it follows that those are the source of religious morality.
Secular sources of morality are derived by assigning goals for morality (such as minimizing suffering, or upholding certain ideals) and determining standards of behavior that bring them about. Moral philosophers may disagree with the constructions of other philosophers, but they are all basically working along these lines. In fact, the aforementioned religious leaders are probably also working along these lines in most cases. I would expect that the gaggle of christian theologians who argue that the humanistic proclamations of jesus are more important than the exodus verse about stoning children for disobedience, are actually doing so because the find the consequences of applying the former versus more desirable than the latter.