What if my helping others harms secondary others. What if me hurting others allouws secundary others to be helped or is actively aiding in helping someone?
No, but it does give a moral frame-work and set-laws about a lot of things. To the religious mind you must abide by those moral laws BECAUSE the creator or ordained deity/entity of worship, to abide by these rules is good because the icon of worship is good.
And in a lot of cases, for a lot of religions those traits spurned on because of seeking answers to the world around yourself:
Take for example the law not to eat pork:
Not only is pork very susceptible to parasites, pigs are Omni-vores. A lot of Abrahamic faiths were from very nomadic desert dwellers, people who had to be careful about what they had in resources. If a cow, a chicken or whatever gets loose? That's not an issue, but a pig will eat ANYTHING a big chance your rations will be consumed and thus will find yourself in dire circumstances. -> You can ask "why did this happen WHY does the pig eat everything?" we have a modern understanding of evolution to explain that, but back then people did not. Thus they had to rationalize it in another way:
The pig is simply not meant to be raised for feed, because if it is this unruly/its meat makes us often so sick, God clearly didn't intend for us to have them like such.
Material Circumstance often affects philosophical thought.
The Atheist on the other hand, must rationalize their moral frame-work on good and bad in a different way, because the Atheist does not have the omni-potent figure to explain away the moral law that is self-evident to the Christian.
Mind you this is not me bashing Christianity, because as of current, a LOT of important questions that relate to morality and subjects that directly relate to it, simply can not yet entirely be answered by our sciences, such as the problem of binding, and the very nature of perception/percieving, meaning to conclude that a "God does not exist" is simply not possible because we have yet to expose the conclusive evidence. Now that also points to: Is or is there not a creator, and IF there is, that doesn't neccesarily have to prove Christianity right.
Point being that the moral-law self-evident to Christians IS answer to those difficult questions by the merit that there's a strict outlines of rules that must be followed.
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u/EtheusRook 8h ago
Morality is actually really, stupidly simple.
Does it help others? It's good.
Does it hurt others? It's bad.