RE: Admitting You're a Sinner
January 9, 2018 at 3:28 pm
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2018 at 3:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
In christian theology, we have a moral compass, we're just incapable of uniformly following it. This, at least, provides similarities between religious taboo and spiritual "contamination" as fallen creatures and actual ethical systems.
Moral realists also assert that human beings are predictably incapable of doing the right thing all the time, even when they know what the right thing is. They simply don't refer to ghostly pollution as an explanation for why that is or killing some jew as the solution to the problem....because neither of those things has anything to do with realist ethics.
Theres no fact of sin, no fact of a fallen nature, and no fact of vicarious redemption by christ or any other, nor..if there were..would it matter to any system of ethical realism. "Sin" is just a term for what's on gods shitlist. Redemption...for getting off that shitlist. Full stop.
Ultimately, religious morality -based- upon "sin" or "grounded in god" is notable for being a failed attempt at moral realism...that devolved into a pointless discussion of the subjective mores of everyone's pet fairy.
Moral realists also assert that human beings are predictably incapable of doing the right thing all the time, even when they know what the right thing is. They simply don't refer to ghostly pollution as an explanation for why that is or killing some jew as the solution to the problem....because neither of those things has anything to do with realist ethics.
Theres no fact of sin, no fact of a fallen nature, and no fact of vicarious redemption by christ or any other, nor..if there were..would it matter to any system of ethical realism. "Sin" is just a term for what's on gods shitlist. Redemption...for getting off that shitlist. Full stop.
Ultimately, religious morality -based- upon "sin" or "grounded in god" is notable for being a failed attempt at moral realism...that devolved into a pointless discussion of the subjective mores of everyone's pet fairy.
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