From the Ten Commandments to the Presidential Bioethics Commission, beliefs about God guide moral decision-making for billions of people. In day-to-day practice, traditional religious communities claim to make their members more honest, generous, loving, and just. But does bringing God into the picture really help us understand and do what is right? Does God provide a ground for moral realism, securing a moral law that transcends our self-serving biases and interests, or is what we think about "God" determined by very human mental models and surrounding circumstances? And empirically speaking, does believing in God and participating in a religious community make people behave better—or worse?

Join us as Kurt Gray (UNC-Chapel Hill, Deepest Beliefs Lab, Center for the Science of Moral Understanding) and Christian Miller (Wake Forest University, The Character Project, The Honesty Project) bring the science of psychology to bear on the problems of how to develop moral character, how to justify moral judgements, and whether to look to God for help in living rightly.

May 4, 2023

6:30pm-9:00pm

North Ridge Country Club - Raleigh, NC

Hosted by the Center for Christianity and Scholarship.