DOES RELIGION DEFINE MORALITY?
Aparthib Zaman E mail : aparthib@yahoo.com It is the common claim of religious believers that sense of right and wrong can only come from religion/God/spirituality and that anyone secular is devoid of any moral virtue. So by their criterion it follows that scientists/philosophers who hold secular beliefs or are atheists have no virtue at all and virtues are monopoly of religious believers only. It must be emphasized that Theists declare it as a rule that “Morality cannot be enforced/defined without religion” whereas Humanists/ rationalists never declare it as rule that “morality can ONLY be defined/enforced WITHOUT religion. They only affirm that morality is POSSIBLE independent of religion, and that immorality is also possible WITH religion. So even if there exists immorality among some atheists or some secular society that does not change the fact that morality in some other non-religious society/individual can also and do exist, and similarly even if there exists morality in some re
