RELIGION ℅MORALS

MORALS, PAVING THE WAY FOR RELIGION

"Religion is not a repository of morality. Morality is learned from self actualization and empathy. You pick it up from childhood. One can have morals without necessarily being religious. Don't get me wrong. Religion in itself is arguably a man-made institution and as such is bagged up with flaws.
Christianity is about one's mentality"

Having been on a portal for some years, this typed by someone made me start to think deeper unknowingly. Then it hit me, how true can this be? Then again I said to myself it may or may not be true because unknown to you, someone's " assumption" held as a strong belief might be a fallacy to another.

In my quest to find my way around it, I decided to look out for the meanings of both "morals" and "religion".
Morals as defined by the English dictionary says  "is conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgement".
It then defines religion as "a particular system of faith and worship".
Having found these, I sighed and then again tried to get key words that was visible in these two words. For morals, I realized it could be likened to ethics, relation, noble, virtual just to mention a few. Then for religion, devotion and commitment could be said to be what it centers on.
One could go to and fro about this whole issue concerning morality and religion but for one to say both stand on its own is but a sham.

I dare say that one relies on the other or one is embedded in the other. That said, when a child is born, parents see to passing on several virtues to them. How to accord people respect, how to speak and so on. When all these are in place, then there is a way paved for religion.

Religion as seen might in a way put a fold over people's eyes. In the name of religion, people have misled others. In the name of religion, people have committed heartbreaking crimes and just because they preach the gospel, most go scot free.

It is not about speaking in tongues, it is not about making people whole from their ailments and it certainly is not about carving a niche for oneself but how you can make someone saved come the day of judgment.

Someone may say several books written by some people held high in esteem is enough to instill morals into someone but like an Akan adage says " obi nhyer3 akwaada Nyame". To be translated, no one shows who God is to a kid. Some years back,God spoke to people Himself and He still does. People off late are hiding behind the mercies of Him and doing several things. When caught, they claim the Spirit of the most high asked me to do it. But really, some " insane" things can never be from God.

Switch on a radio or a television set and you'd be a witness to what I am saying. Everyone is claiming to have been "called" by a deity of some sort and gradually are turning this whole issue into a business. But this is not to be so! Where will all these lead us to? Should you accumulate all the wealth and never wake up the next day which means you never had the chance to confess your sins, of what benefit will it be to you?

Truly, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks and by their fruits, ye shall know them. Religion shouldn't be confused as morals and vice versa. For some, they attend church to get a deeper insight of things they have heard or read somewhere but should it be that out of someone's selfishness they are further confused than they came, what good have you been to them?

Morals are virtues to be upheld and religion, a calling to be devoted to a particular faith.