I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.
The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.
Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.