Human Morality

Most people assume that you need both religion and government in order for there to be any kind of moral code in society. This idea cannot be any more misguided. In fact, it is ironic to turn to these sources for moral guidance, given the fact that both have a very poor moral track record. The immorality of government is plainly obvious, and if you ask most people, they would say that governments are corrupt and operate outside the supposed law and order that they implement. Religion has been the source of countless numbers of egregious violations of human rights, including genocide and other atrocities over the course of history. The faithful have gone as far as cherry-picking their religious texts in order for their beliefs to correctly correspond with what humans already know about right and wrong. Thus both systems have been proven by human behavior to be contradictions of the moral codes they seek to reinforce. It is only through thousands of years of conditioning that we still maintain the belief that humans are incapable of deciding for themselves what is moral and what is not without divine or government help.