RE: Where did Jesus get His morality from?
October 29, 2010 at 1:45 am
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2010 at 1:46 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
(October 22, 2010 at 7:52 am)solja247 Wrote: Where did Jesus get His morality and ethics from? Even atheists can not mock Jesus's morality, there is even a group of atheists called, 'Atheists for Jesus.' So the question begs, where did His thinking come from?
Assuming Jesus existed, he was a Jew an an Orthodox rabbi who admonished his follower to keep the law. His ethical code is Jewish and based on the Torah,which in turn was largely lifted from the Sumerians,along with their nasty little desert god, 'EL'(he).
I have never met a person who calls themselves a Christian who does not cherry pick what teachings they will actually follow when it comes to their daily behaviour.
The moral code of Jesus doesn't carry much weight with me.Nor does any other system of ethics based on absolute moral imperatives. I can and do mock Christian morality as simplistic and naive, as well as often cruel and hypocritical.
Quote:Christianity? Probably a good idea. Somebody ought to try it. (George Bernard Shaw)