RE: Maximizing Moral Virtue
September 17, 2022 at 8:24 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2022 at 8:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 17, 2022 at 6:28 pm)h311inac311 Wrote: And it is the inspiration of this story, which was signed in blood, that keeps a Christian from embracing corruption.
Which christians does it do that for? I'm just saying, prisons are full of christians. Hate preachers get caught underneath central american poolboys with some regularity, the vast majority of any bad thing done by anyone in the us is done by a christian by sheer force of demographics. Talismanic christianity is about as credible as a lucky rabbits foot. In both cases one motherfucker is already dead for the superstition and many more will follow thinking that death benefitted them.
I don't know how slipping into christianese (and you know when you're doing it, lol) helps to explain anything. You tell us it's your job to live like christ. Why? Is it just because he was christ, just because some god told you too, because there's an alleged reward....or do you think that it's a good way to live a life? To me, it would seem like it would have to be the latter thing. The former being completely irrelevent to any moral oughts, such as, "we ought to live our life a certain way".
Barebones, that we shouldn't live for wealth, power, sex, or fame? Thankfully that's a short list and life is unfathomably vast. Why, though, should you not seek those things? Should you not seek them because a god didn't? Because god personally dislikes them? Because god said no? Because god dangling carrot? Or, because there's something wrong with them, and if so, what? Are we dealing with moral considerations in living our lives "like christ", or mimicry-for-effect?
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