Reflections on Ethics & Morality
The Church Position on Ethics
The Universal Church Triumphant of the Apathetic Agnostic (UCTAA) takes no official position on Ethics and Morality. As acceptance of the Articles of the UCTAA by members of the Church involves a personal intellectual decision rather than an act of faith, similarly, decisions on Ethics and Morality should be determined through a personal intellectual process rather than blindly following rules set down by any Church.
However, if you need simple guidance, then the Church suggests that if you do right by others, you will do right by yourself.
Learn From Others
The moral teachings of many other religions and philosophies have value even if you do not accept the spiritual element. You have a personal responsibility to assess these teachings and decide for yourself the applicability to your own life.
Reflections on Ethics
This section provides writings on Ethics and Morality. The intent is not to dictate morality, but to discuss how we each should determine for ourselves how to live our lives.
Your submissions to the Ethics section of this site, or for discussions following up on any issue presented here are welcome. Prepare your article in your favourite text processor and use the Article Submission Form to submit it for publication.
Latest Articles:
- Reflections on Ethics 124: That Godawful Trolley Problem New
- Reflections on Ethics 123: Revelation is no way to determine morality
- Reflections on Ethics 122: Human Morality: encouragement -- by Gordon Barthel
- Reflections on Ethics 121: This I Believe - Our Noble, Essential Decency -- by Robert A. Heinlein
- Reflections on Ethics 120: Human Morality: compassion -- by Gordon Barthel
- Reflections on Ethics 119: Human Morality: creativity -- by Gordon Barthel
- Reflections on Ethics 118: Human Morality: acceptance -- by Gordon Barthel
- Reflections on Ethics 117: I Believe - - morality (3) -- by Gordon Barthel
- Reflections on Ethics 116: I Believe - - morality (2) -- by Gordon Barthel
- Reflections on Ethics 115: I Believe - - morality (1) -- by Gordon Barthel
- Reflections on Ethics 114: What makes something right or wrong?
Links related to Ethics
- The Affirmations of Humanism:A Statement of Principles
- Classic Texts on Ethics
- Ethics Definitions from The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Ethics Matters
- Classic Texts in Ethics
Reflections to date:
- Reflection 01 - A Fable
- Reflection 02 - Response to Talkback #8
- Reflection 03 - Empathy
- Reflection 04 - Agnostic Ethics
- Reflection 05 - Basics of Ethics
- Reflection 06 - The 10 Commandments?
- Reflection 07 - Cognitive Dissonance and Scripture
- Reflection 08 - Signs of Liars
- Reflection 09 - The Rights of the Uncloned
- Reflection 10 - The Folly of Christian Ethics
- Reflection 11 - Objectivism and ethics
- Reflection 12 - The Plausibility of Human Freedom within Christian Theism.
- Reflection 13 - The Ethics of Cloning
- Reflection 14 - Ten Guidelines
- Reflection 15 - "For the prevention of disease only"
- Reflection 16 - Ethics is Subjective
- Reflection 17 - Clarified Religious Tolerance - Safe Sects
- Reflection 18 - The Charity of King Wenceslas
- Reflection 19 - Russell's Ten Commandments
- Reflection 20 - Right vs Wrong
- Reflection 21 - Myths About Marriage
- Reflection 22 - Why Do Right? A Secularist's Answer
- Reflection 23 - Teaching Christianity in Jails
- Reflection 24 - The Meaning of Sin
- Reflection 25 - What Would You Substitute for the Bible as a Moral Guide? by Robert G. Ingersoll
- Reflection 26 - The Immorality of Disbelief
- Reflection 27 - We can forgive god - by Teofilo Contreras
- Reflection 28 - Fundamentalists are the Real Moral Relativists
- Reflection 29 - The Philosophy of Killing, by Teofilo Contreras
- Reflection 30 - Voting Ethics a Discussion, by Andrew Mackowiak
- Reflection 31 - Killing for God
- Reflection 32 - The Source of Morality
- Reflection 33 - Morality Without Religion by Joseph C. Sommer
- Reflection 34 - Laws Against Suicide Absurd and Ridiculous by Robert G. Ingersoll.
- Reflection 35 - "God sees your human works as filthy garments."
- Reflection 36 - A Position Statement on Abortion
- Reflection 37 - Bad Law; Immoral Law
- Reflection 38 - The Living Dead: Ethical Considerations
- Reflection 39 - Some Thoughts on Honesty
- Reflection 40 - What’s Wrong With the Ten Commandments? by Lester C. Graham
- Reflection 41 - Feelings - the source of morality - by Reverend Fouad B.
- Reflection 42 - Morality: More than Religion - by Ryan Kennedy
- Reflection 43 - The Evil in Terrorism
- Reflection 44 - How About Some Suggestions? - by Lester C. Graham
- Reflection 45 - Left Behind
- Reflection 46 - Jesus's Free Pass?
- Reflection 47 - Is it wrong to convert someone? - by Reverend Gunner Nelson
- Reflection 48 - My Baby's Daddy - by Rev. Kenny Whetstone
- Reflection 49 - A reading list
- Reflection 50 - Well they claim to get their morality from the Bible...
- Reflection 51 - Homosexuality, Choice, and Sin by Don Schumacher, Jr.
- Reflection 52 - Hypocrisy in South Dakota
- Reflection 53 - The New Deadly Sins
- Reflection 54 - Abuse Destroys Souls
- Reflection 55 - Fighting the Just War
- Reflection 56 - Slippery slope family values
- Reflection 57 - God's Will in Assisted Reproduction
- Reflection 58: And they claim God is the source of their morality?
- Reflection 59 - When Does Life Begin? - Margarita Carrión
- Reflection 60 - Hardwired for Morality
- Reflection 61 - Morality: invention or discovery? - by Bernardo Arroyo
- Reflection 62 - Morality is a heuristic that is complicated by religion - by Will Petillo
- Reflection 63 - "Born that way" is not what makes it right
- Reflection 64 - Belief and Social Virtues
- Reflection 65 - The Tenth Commandment: The Hidden Meaning of Coveting - by Joseph Lewis
- Reflection 66 - How Many 10 Commandments? - by Joseph Lewis
- Reflection 67 - The First Commandment: The Bible Deity and Abraham Lincoln - by Joseph Lewis
- Reflection 68 - The Second Commandment: Jealousy; The Attribute of Primitive Gods - by Joseph Lewis
- Reflection 69 - The Third Commandment: Names of Gods Taboo - by Joseph Lewis
- Reflection 70 - The Fourth Commandment: Is There a Sabbath Day? - by Joseph Lewis
- Reflection 71 - The Fifth Commandment: Faithfulness and Failure - by Joseph Lewis
- Reflection 72 - The Sixth Commandment: Killing and Self-Preservation - by Joseph Lewis
- Reflection 73 - The Seventh Commandment: What Is Adultery? - by Joseph Lewis
- Reflection 74 - The Eighth Commandment: What Constitutes a Theft? - by Joseph Lewis
- Reflection 75 - The Ninth Commandment: The Tribal Significance of "Neighbor" - by Joseph Lewis
- Reflection 76 - Can we teach morality without involving religion? - by Catherine Gager
- Reflection 77- From Whence Cometh Evil? A dialogue on amoralist ethics - by Will Petillo
- Reflection 78 - Live on after death - by PsiCop
- Reflection 79 - What do long-handled spoons have to do with morality?
- Reflection 80 - Some Reflections on Ethics - by Paul W. Sharkey
- Reflection 81 - Further Reflections on Ethics - by Paul W. Sharkey
- Reflection 82 - Is honesty always the right thing?
- Reflection 83 - Do No Harm - by Paul W. Sharkey
- Reflection 84: Slogans and codes are not a substitute for morality
- Reflection 85: The Ten Worst Bible Passages
- Reflection 86: What the Bible says about homosexuality
- Reflection 87: Once more, morality does not come from any god; but immorality can come from belief in one.
- Reflection 88: A Choice
- Reflection 89: Sick of God's Law
- Reflection 90: It's all God's idea
- Reflection 91: Is fear really the true essence of morality? - Alan Parfitt
- Reflection 92: To lie or not to lie
- Reflection 93: Morality: from belief or disbelief?
- Reflection 94: Torture Works? So Oppose It - Kenan Malik
- Reflection 95: Making the Bible fit as he goes along
- Reflection 96: Penn Jillette's 10 Commandments - by God
- Reflection 97: Basing morality on the Bible...
- Reflection 98: Equality & the "Judeo-Christian Ethic"
- Reflection 99: No Morality in the Golden Rule
- Reflection 100: You Say... God Says
- Reflection 101: Christians Justifying Evil with the Bible
- Reflection 102: Who is imposing their morality on others?
- Reflection 103: The Five Precepts of Buddhism - by James Quirk
- Reflection 104: Morality comes from looking outwards, not inwards.
- Reflection 105: The real crime against humanity.
- Reflection 106: Physician assisted death
- Reflections on Ethics 107: Bearing False Witness - The Oklahoma Ten Commandments monument.
- Reflections on Ethics 108: What Makes Something Right or Wrong? (video)
- Reflections on Ethics 109: The problem of morality (video)
- Reflections on Ethics 110: The shameful "shame-shame": The Shame of No Sex Education
- Reflections on Ethics 111: Do unto others...
- Reflections on Ethics 112: Not from anyone's holy scripture
- Reflections on Ethics 113: The infinite mutability of scripture-based morality
- Reflections on Ethics 114: What makes something right or wrong?
- Reflections on Ethics 115: I Believe - - morality (part 1) -- by Gordon Barthel
- Reflections on Ethics 116: I Believe - - morality (part 2) -- by Gordon Barthel
- Reflections on Ethics 117: I Believe - - morality (part 3) -- by Gordon Barthel
- Reflections on Ethics 118: Human Morality: acceptance -- by Gordon Barthel
- Reflections on Ethics 119: Human Morality: creativity -- by Gordon Barthel
- Reflections on Ethics 120: Human Morality: compassion -- by Gordon Barthel
- Reflections on Ethics 121: This I Believe - Our Noble, Essential Decency -- by Robert A. Heinlein
- Reflections on Ethics 122: Human Morality: encouragement -- by Gordon Barthel
- Reflections on Ethics 123: Revelation is no way to determine morality
- Reflections on Ethics 124: That Godawful Trolley Problem