RE: Admitting You're a Sinner
January 11, 2018 at 12:54 pm
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2018 at 1:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 11, 2018 at 11:21 am)SteveII Wrote: But was he a Christian? He did not believe Christ was who he said he was in the NT. He worked up his own definition. I like to work with the original, generally accepted and clearly articulated one from the documents that founded Christianity.Are you really ready to excommunicate Tolstoy again...? His experience of christianity actually -was- transformative. That "change" you were talking about earlier is definitely showing here.....but according to you he's an atheist, lol.
Quote:Why would I concede that there is no difference in morality between a population of people who individually and collectively develop/discover subjective morality and another population that is commanded to follow a moral code as part of their worldview?Another difference that isn't there. Deontological ethics are common and commonly secular.
That's 0/2. Christianity isn't doing shit to anyone's "heart", and it doesn't hold the patent on normative ethics.
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