Posted: Jul 16, 2016 8:08 am
Weaver wrote:Keep It Real wrote:I don't believe in running. I do believe in community, moralistic teaching, trying to be kind, music, beautiful architecture and ritual. Christianity fits the bill. There is too a baby.
Christianity has a long history of immorality guised as morality - oppression of minorities, oppression of gays, deliberate wars of conquest. It is not a source of pure moralistic teaching. It is fatally flawed - as its adherents demonstrate constantly.
Morality is not dependent on religion. Religion, with its assertion that its teachings come from a (utterly fictional) higher power, suppresses criticism of immorality, and demands obedience. Fuck that shit.
And religious morals often miss the mark by not thinking about ethical principles, and how combinations of them apply in particular cases, with a view of minimizing physical harm or mental angish. Instead it is often just about following a bunch of absolute edicts, or in the case of the less fanatic, cherry-picking according to personal taste and opinion.
