trying to adopt an amoral worldview

[Rev. Rye]

There are plenty of Christians with amoral views.  Joining a church or being baptized doesn't free one of a personality disorder.  In cases of megachurch leaders and theocrats, religion justifies and amplifies the defect.

It’s weird, it’s almost like religion and morality are, in practice, separate, and that once a desire for hegemony starts to infiltrate a religion, morality tends to get thrown out the window.

And now, a quote from C.S. Lewis that’s pretty relevant:

"I am a democrat because I believe that no man or group of men is good enough to be trusted with uncontrolled power over others. And the higher the pretentions of such power, the more dangerous I think it both to the rulers and to the subjects. Hence Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity as some point may be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations. And as Theocracy is the worst, the nearer any government approaches to a theocracy the worse it will be. A metaphysic, held by rulers with the force of religion, is a bad sign. It forbids them, like the inquisitor, to admit any grain of truth or good in their opponents."

Source: “Reply to Professor Haldane”

Also, yet another smooth-brained moment from drich when he seemed to act like being a former Christian gave him an unusual level of insight into morality, like many of us weren’t already raised into Christianity and eventually rejected it.