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"Iain" |
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25 Jan 2005 12:10:43 PM |
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Rules, not morality |
Christianity is about rules and obedience, often arbitrary, not actual
morality. Has anyone actually noticed that Christians don't consider the
dynamics of suffering and fairness, but instead scrutinise various rules.
Hence socially destructive dogma like forbiddenness of divorce and gay sex.
~Iain
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| User: "Denis Loubet" |
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| Title: Re: Rules, not morality |
25 Jan 2005 04:18:20 PM |
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"Iain" <iain_ink_remove_ster@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ct5d03$jjt$1@titan.btinternet.com...
Christianity is about rules and obedience, often arbitrary, not actual
morality. Has anyone actually noticed that Christians don't consider the
dynamics of suffering and fairness, but instead scrutinise various rules.
Hence socially destructive dogma like forbiddenness of divorce and gay
sex.
Yup. Children have to obey rules because they have not learned morals yet.
Obeying rules is a pre-moral state.
The Christians seem to be stuck in that state.
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Denis Loubet
dloubet@io.com
http://www.io.com/~dloubet
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: Rules, not morality |
26 Jan 2005 02:07:44 AM |
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:10:43 +0000 (UTC), "Iain"
<iain_ink_remove_ster@hotmail.com> said in alt.atheism:
Christianity is about rules and obedience, often arbitrary, not actual
morality. Has anyone actually noticed that Christians don't consider the
dynamics of suffering and fairness, but instead scrutinise various rules.
And violate most of them?
--
"They laughed at Newton, they laughed at Einstein, but they also laughed at
Bozo the Clown."
- Carl Sagan
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rukbat at verizon dot net
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