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Religions provide moral guidance; because billions of people world-wide identify with a religion, religion has an enormous influence on moral behavior. Religion provides moral motivation and a community of believers. Although religions promote morality, they also have a darker side that has cluttered history with religiously related immoralities that include the Crusades, the Inquisition, numerous destructive wars and acts of cruelty. I review important aspects of the moral codes of the influential religions, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism and Hinduism.
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Steinberg, D. (2020). Morality and Religion. In: The Multidisciplinary Nature of Morality and Applied Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45680-1_7
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