Okay. If I understand you, then,
Society creates morality. Without society, there is no morality.
This leads to at least two conclusions.
One: society creates whatever moralities there are in religion. God, if he/she/it exists, has no morality, but all religious "morality" is just a societal construct.
Two: different societies can have different moralities, and none is "better" than the other, because there is no external standard to judge them by. They are just different. Thus, to continue with my example, female genital mutilation is not wrong in any absolute sense, it is right by some societal standards of morality and wrong by others, but not right or wrong in any broader sense than that. |
