Religious response report in the subject ethics

1. Lesson 3 Religious Response:
The Role of Religion in Ethics

2. Intended Learning Outcomes:
Differentiate ethics from Religion
Explain the role of Religion in Ethics

3. Introduction
Several articles uploaded on the Internet
state that ethics or morality is possible
without God. Even if one does not believe in
God, he can still be ethical. As to how true
these statements are, this is what you should
be able to see at the end of this lesson

4. Ethics is concerned with what is
good and moral based on reason.
This is what religion is also
concerned about, what is moral
based on God’s revelation. So
religion is not contrary to ethics.
Religion is in support of Ethics.

5. Ethics and Religion
Both ethics and religion are
concerned with the most fundamental
questions human existence. Religion
draws answers to what is moral and
ethical from revelation as written in
Scriptures and as “lived by their
prophets and Jesus Christ (for
Christian).

6. Ethics gets its answers to what is moral and
ethical from reason and experience. It doesn’t mean
that theists don’t use reason when they determine
what is right and In fact, even those from whom
morality is religiously based may want to examine
their views based on reason. They may want to
examine various interpretations of their religious
principles for internal consistency or coherence.”
(MacKinnon,B., et al, 2015)