The Role of Religion in Stabilizing the Foundations of Ethics

Religion as a "set of convictions, precepts, and morals with divine and revealed origin, and ethics as a " set of attributes and deeds characterized by goodness and badness" are interconnected and meet each other's needs. Hence, both of them have roles and functions in each other's realm. Religion has functions in three domains of" knowledge","justification" and" norm", which helps Reason explain goodness and badness, state particular moral rules, and explains moral objectives. Religion guarantees the eternity of moral principles. Altruism, self-sacrifice, generosity, etc are only justified through belief in God, in other worldly reckoning and retribution. Furthermore, God's support and disapproval, as the ideal Overseer in ethics, are considered as a cause to justify moral acts.Devine decree, as a norm of moral rules, is accompanied with such issues asrelativism and variability of goodness and badness. However, the more appropriate form of religious norm of ethics discusses the good pleasure of God as the most complete proof of happiness in ethics, and accepts that eventually the good pleasure of God and winning His favor are the final norms in ethics.