My look into Morality. THANKS DONUTT, YOU HELPED WITH THIS!

So after reading a bit into a philosophical subject, it got me thinking. Religious thinkers often hold that there is some important connection between morality, which actions are right and which are wrong. If you were to ask someone what moral rightness is, he or she might first provide some examples of right actions. Many would agree that murder is wrong, and pursuing justice is right. But this doesn't answer the question, what is morality?

Many of the great philosopher Plato's followers were polythiets and when questioned about the nature of morality, one of them said that rightness is that which is loved by the gods and wrongness is that which is hated. Though this does appear to be a definition, there is a problem, the gods of his time, just like humans, constantly bickered about everything. For any given action, some gods love it while others did not. But then the very same action could both be god loved and god hated and so, by that definition, both right and wrong. And surely that can't be.

Believing in only one god, the monotheist may avoid this problem: towards any given action the single god presumably feels only love or hate, but not both. But then another problem arises. If rightness were "that which is loved by god," we couldn't know that a given action is right or wrong unless we knew just what god loved and hated - and unless you are a prophet you have no way of knowing that. Morality would become unknowable to us.

And there is a deeper problem still. Even if we did somehow learn the complete list of actions god loves and hates we still would not have the ultimate definition to rightness. For consider this question: is the right action loved by god because it is right, or is it right simply because it is loved?