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Originally Posted by RobotElvis
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Ok maybe I will be more simple and clear for you then you can understand.
You claim morality is a concept. Concepts are acquired and not hereditary.
Religion/worship is a concept it is the not hereditary but acquired.
However morality unlike religion is universally immutable to the human family regardless of your concept of religion/worship.
Example: the irreligious regime of the Khmer Rouge killed millions of people. If morality is nothing more than a concept then we have to accept that as their view of what is right and wrong. Their concept of morality. They were not influenced by the concept of religion after all.
Are you willing to say that the Khmer Rouge were in their own moral concept of right and wrong not immoral in their actions?
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The Khmer more than likely viewed their actions as justified. Hitler probably thought he was a pretty rad dude. Jeffrey Dahmer probably liked the taste of humans. What's your point? That is just more evidence that morality is a concept and not some concrete edict written on our hearts by a sky daddy.
Morality is a concept. I can ask you to picture a doorknob. When you imagine a doorknob it may be very different than the picture I have in my mind as a doorknob. Is the concept of doorknobs somehow negated by that? Have humans not refined the concept over the centuries? So yes, morality can evolve through a society and be refined but not everyone has to share that same morality.