It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that ethics precede religion, implying moral values can exist independently of religious beliefs.
Salman Rushdie asserts that ethical considerations provide a foundation for determining right and wrong, rather than religion being the source of morality. He emphasizes that while many people believe that religious structures dictate moral values, true ethical reasoning can exist independently of any religious framework, allowing for a more universal understanding of right and wrong.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the relationship between religion and morality in a philosophy class.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
You must find your treasure in order to make sense of everything you discovered on the path.
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