Difficulties with authoritarian morality
- It is only suitable for toddlers with no reasoning capabilities. Mature adults need reasons for moral judgement so they can be responsible for their own decisions and lives.
- It is incapable of speaking to the moral challenges of a changing world. Taking your morality from a 2000 year old text is foolish because you don’t live in the world of 2000 years ago when it was applicable and it clearly doesn’t speak the moral questions faced in the modern world.
- When people questions the authority (the religious organization) they are left with no basis for morality at all. This is very dangerous because there are often some very good reasons why some behaviors will be catastrophic for their lives.