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Date Posted: 19:53:12 03/14/07 Wed
Author: Emily Clark
Subject: morality and religion

I found all the different influencers of moral development to be pretty interesting--especially religion. How interesting that church attendence is actually associated with more moral behavior. I suppose I just always assumed that many religious young people were, to a certain extent, living fairly hypocritical lives. Apparently, religion does have a big impact on young people, even when they may not be entirely sure if they believe what their parents and church taught them to. What was especially surprising/confusing to me was the study on 3,350 adolescent girls at the end of the chapter. Surprisingly, girls who identified highly with "personal conservatism" (ie. agree that scripture is with out mistakes) were more likely than others to have unsafe sex, whereas frequent attendence at religious functions was linked with fear of unprotected sex and increased birth control usage. This goes against the assertion that religion is linked with morality. Apparently religion's impact on morality is a very complicated one and depends a great deal on the context and the type of religion! As we see in the last section, cults, which consider themselves to be religious organizations, may have negative influences on morality. There's certainly a lot to think about with regard to showing young people the right way to live if you're using religion as a tool to show what's right.

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[> Re: morality and religion -- Jessica Roesch, 08:31:37 03/15/07 Thu

>I also think religion is a really interesting component to morality. This relationship is particularly complicated when sex is involved. There may be an important parental variable at play in the relationship between religion and morality. children may be influenced by their parents religious doctrine to a certain extent, but more important may be the active role of parents in their lives. for instance, children who go to church with their parents have parents who were likely to teach them lessons such as discipline, dedication, etc. Families who attend church together are likely families who value doing activities (such as attending church) together, which also leads to positive outcomes for adolescents. I think that when sex comes into play, parents and church leaders, are much more likely to model, explain, and show principles of caring, honesty, etc, rather than those related to sexual behavior. There tends to be an avoidance of this issue in many churches, which likely leads adolescents to have to figure this aspect out on their own.
I found all the different influencers of moral
>development to be pretty interesting--especially
>religion. How interesting that church attendence is
>actually associated with more moral behavior. I
>suppose I just always assumed that many religious
>young people were, to a certain extent, living fairly
>hypocritical lives. Apparently, religion does have a
>big impact on young people, even when they may not be
>entirely sure if they believe what their parents and
>church taught them to. What was especially
>surprising/confusing to me was the study on 3,350
>adolescent girls at the end of the chapter.
>Surprisingly, girls who identified highly with
>"personal conservatism" (ie. agree that scripture is
>with out mistakes) were more likely than others to
>have unsafe sex, whereas frequent attendence at
>religious functions was linked with fear of
>unprotected sex and increased birth control usage.
>This goes against the assertion that religion is
>linked with morality. Apparently religion's impact on
>morality is a very complicated one and depends a great
>deal on the context and the type of religion! As we
>see in the last section, cults, which consider
>themselves to be religious organizations, may have
>negative influences on morality. There's certainly a
>lot to think about with regard to showing young people
>the right way to live if you're using religion as a
>tool to show what's right.

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