Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, Second Edition

RELIGION AND MORALITY

Many people believe that morality emanates from religion, which provides its followers its own set of moral instructions, beliefs, values, traditions and commitments. If we take Christianity as an illustration, it offers its believers a view that they are unique creatures of Divine Intervention ‘that has endowed them with consciousness and ability to love’. They are finite and bound to earth, and having been born morally flawed with the original sin, they are prone to wrongdoing. But by atoning for their sins, they can transcend nature, and after death, become immortal.⁷ One’s purpose in being born in this sinful world is to serve and love one’s Creator. For the Christian, the way to do this is to emulate the life and example ...