(January 16, 2019 at 12:55 pm)Acrobat Wrote:(January 16, 2019 at 12:44 pm)Brian37 Wrote: The motifs of kindness and empathy in Christianity are found in every religion, because religion isn't where our behaviors come from, but evolution itself.
Humans of every religion in the world also are capable of doing bad. Most humans are good, yes, but Christianity doesn't own a patent on human behavior, good or bad.
Well, if its wasn't found in other religions, or worldviews, this would be problematic for christianity, who imagines that we're all born with the image of God, oriented to some conception of goodness, that morality is written within us.
But this is still besides the point. The question was whether the moral values expressed in Christianity (as opposed to moral rules or commands) are cherrypicked, not whether or not they exist outside of it.
Um no, humans merely buy what society sells them, most of the time at birth before they can formulate adult critical thinking skills. God/s are merely a reflection of human's qualities. There is no super cognition doing any of this, and if humans want to do good or bad, it is strictly in the individual as to what they do.
