RE: Stem Cell Research
October 21, 2010 at 11:32 pm
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2010 at 11:42 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 21, 2010 at 9:56 pm)Minimalist Wrote: It's why I don't think xtian ethics are ethical.
A system of ethics that is based on a fixed deception can not possibly be adaptable enough to both survive for long and continue to provide such moral guidance as would genuinely minimize harm and maximize human welfare. Eventually, any moral purpose for which it might have once been conceived would be superceded by the need to protect its own central deception in order to ensure of its own continued survival. Christian "ethics" has been haunted by this need since 1600s, when various branches of the religion attempted to reconcile periperal parts of the fixed deception with the intellectual progresses being made in the age of enlightenment. Christian "ethics" has been completely consumed by the demands of protecting its own central deception since the middle of 19th century, when it become clear that new discoveries fundamentally exposed the deception to its core. The resurgence of christian fundamentalism and bible literalism in the 20th century is just the menifestation of Christianit's total bandonment of any ethical mission to refocus completely on the protection of the fixed iron age deceptions of the old and new testaments.
