A Convenient Untruth: God and the Evolution of Ethics – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A Convenient Untruth: God and the Evolution of Ethics – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): But somewhere between its invention and today, ethics has become warped. We allowed the original function of ethics to be forgotten. Instead we took the presumed commands of a divine will or the abstract strictures of pure reason to be the roots of ethics, and constructed distorted moral systems in their spirit, forgetting the core purpose of ethics.