(January 2, 2019 at 5:38 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: What is a Christian "value"?
Is it the persecution of people who don't believe exactly what you believe because that is common among Christians?
Is it the oppression of peoples sexuality because that is common among Christians?
Is it the suppression of scientific discoveries because that is a very common Christian trait?
Christianity is not a "good thing"
Not that there cant be good Christians , but they are bucking the trend.
There is no such thing as "Religious morality". There are merely humans attaching our evolutionary behaviors to old mythology.
There are good and bad people in every nation on the face of the planet. And every nation has hospitals and prisons. That says to me our morality isn't coming from old mythology, or from a divine source from above, but our evolution.
Our ability as a species to be cruel or compassionate is in us, not religion. It is the same reason an elephant will protect their calf, and while a male lion will kill the cubs of rivals.
"Religious morality" is simply an artificial construct humans made up.
Religious people, be they Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus or Buddhists, are certainly capable of doing good and being good. I simply disagree as to where they think those behaviors are coming from.
