RE: Maximizing Moral Virtue
May 27, 2022 at 10:01 am
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2022 at 10:42 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Your opinions are all well and good as far as opinions go - but there are opinions…and there are facts. The rcc incorporated pagan deities as saints or iconography because it was a good way to spread the faith. You might even be aware, as a Christian, that people resist giving up their holidays in cultural or individual conversion. The rcc had a policy of not letting the plebs read magic book…so, in that, they effected the same scenario as a contemporary book-less carnival barker. Meanwhile, outside of the rcc, the Christian faith had entirely failed to launch. Whether you believe in some silly demigod or not..that’s the actual history of the human movement.
As to the demigod overturning tables…yeah, there’s a very specific reason that story is told. To establish its protagonist as the only licensed supplier of the product in question. In mere reality, it’s a miracle hiding in plain site. He’d never have survived the beating he got that day to be crucified later. This is why that story isn’t included in any description of a historical Jesus. It’s highly thematic, and wildly a-factual. Just like acts, from before.
As to the rest, you’ll likely already be aware of narrative details that require a person to twist their scrotum into a knot arguing up is down and black is white….as an answer for their faith. These hardly need to be bickered over…imo…because the very concept of Christ is fundamentally and explicitly immoral. The abrogation of moral consequence over items of moral import by spilling the blood of a third party . From the perspective of any cogent notion of moral virtue- vicarious redemption is a raging dumpster-fire.
If the idea is to maximize moral virtue- then Christianity as a belief in Christ works counterproductively with respect to that end. A minimally moral agent acts in good conscience insomuch as they can, and accepts the consequences of their acts, likewise, when they fall short. Your belief in Christ amounts to nothing more, morally, than a naked attempt to flee what you consider just consequences for bad action and states of affairs. This, frankly, may be maximally immoral, because it’s capable of making a complete mockery of any previously asserted moral item….and that’s -before- the nuts and bolts amount to the murder of the better man.
As to the demigod overturning tables…yeah, there’s a very specific reason that story is told. To establish its protagonist as the only licensed supplier of the product in question. In mere reality, it’s a miracle hiding in plain site. He’d never have survived the beating he got that day to be crucified later. This is why that story isn’t included in any description of a historical Jesus. It’s highly thematic, and wildly a-factual. Just like acts, from before.
As to the rest, you’ll likely already be aware of narrative details that require a person to twist their scrotum into a knot arguing up is down and black is white….as an answer for their faith. These hardly need to be bickered over…imo…because the very concept of Christ is fundamentally and explicitly immoral. The abrogation of moral consequence over items of moral import by spilling the blood of a third party . From the perspective of any cogent notion of moral virtue- vicarious redemption is a raging dumpster-fire.
If the idea is to maximize moral virtue- then Christianity as a belief in Christ works counterproductively with respect to that end. A minimally moral agent acts in good conscience insomuch as they can, and accepts the consequences of their acts, likewise, when they fall short. Your belief in Christ amounts to nothing more, morally, than a naked attempt to flee what you consider just consequences for bad action and states of affairs. This, frankly, may be maximally immoral, because it’s capable of making a complete mockery of any previously asserted moral item….and that’s -before- the nuts and bolts amount to the murder of the better man.
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