A Moral Code Is Known By The Morality It Engenders

A Moral Code is supposed to tell you the difference between what is right and what is wrong.  That would be the usual expectation of any moral code.

Generally, it is wrong to lie and right to tell the truth.  But, there should be much more to it than such a simplistic example.

There are the Big Three Moral Codes currently in existence around the world.  They are all based on religious beliefs, generally tracing their origin to a religious book.

The Muslims trace to the Koran; the Jews to the Old Testament and Christians to the New Testament.  Perhaps there is some question on "which brand" of Christianity you consider, or what type of Judaism, etc., but there are certainly core principles involved for each.  As should be expected, each of them overlaps the others by a great deal.

I'm not going to try to characterize each of these in any way.  But, these moral codes exist and have existed for thousands of years.

If these codes were designed to help people behave in a moral manner, then we should be able to look at great gobs of "behavior" over large spans of time, of each group, and trace that behavior back to the moral code.  Perhaps the behavior was terrible, and the explanation is that the codes were just not followed?  Perhaps we find that the terrible behavior was said to be completely aligned with the moral codes?

One of these we can handle very quickly.  The Muslim faith has a moral code, or codes.  Those who disagree on what the "code" should be all generally claim that THEIR version of the moral code traces back to the Koran.  Yet we see, plainly in the daily headlines that there are some Muslims who tell us that THEIR code includes the killing of innocent men, women and children.  OTHER Muslims may denounced the killing group, but the killing Muslims are certainly getting the headlines and causing harm.

I have analyzed the Koran, just a bit.  I am certainly not a student of the Koran.  But, I've found passages that seem to support an aggressive action against Christians and Jews, and other passages that seem to urge compassion.  I won't try to evaluate which of these "versions" is dominant anywhere, because the point I'm making on this page is simply that EACH of these three Big  Three Moral Codes has seemed to justify death and destruction against others.  The death and destruction may mostly have been aimed at those who were not "of the faith," but that is all the more reason to suggest that these are NOT moral codes that can easily be universally accepted by all faiths.

I leave the Muslin Moral Code since I know so little about it, and because some of its apparent excesses are so blatant, that it would seem that this code does not represent one for all humanity, no matter how compassionate any one Muslim might be.

No, I'm afraid the Muslims who are compassionate have a burden to prove that their "brothers in faith" are NOT speaking for all Muslims when they bomb people.

I am looking, of course, for examples of THIS religious code to allow barbaric treatments.  They are not hard to find.  Click Here.

Several churches were destroyed in Kaduna
 

Hundreds of Muslim youths have gone on the rampage in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, following Friday prayers.

The BBC's Haruna Bahago in Abuja says people armed with sticks, daggers and knives set fire to vehicles and attacked anyone they suspected of being Christian.

The northern city of Kaduna is now quiet after two days of rioting in protest at the Miss World beauty contest, which left at least 100 people dead, according to Red Cross officials. (source)