(October 13, 2009 at 11:34 am)Arcanus Wrote:(October 9, 2009 at 4:03 pm)amw79 Wrote: The Christian view of morality ... renders any moral acts commited by a non-Christian as worthless.
No, it denies that those acts are moral at all—the same way that a humanist consequentialism would deny that the acts of a sociopathic serial killer are moral. In either case, the context or belief system held by the committer of the act is irrelevant.
But the belief system of Christianity benefits itself from having this as a doctrine, whereas consequentialism does not. Hence my accusation of the self serving element.
And hang on, you're stating that Christianity "denies those acts are moral at all". Why? Because they were commited by a non-Christian. Therefore had the belief system of the committer of the act been Christian, those acts would otherwise have been moral, ergo the belief system held by moral actor is fundamental.
Anyways, the above quote just epitimises my original problem, in that you have, without a hint of irony (that i could detect) likened 'a moral act commited by a non-christian' with "the acts of a sociopathic serial killer". I don't even know where to start with that one!
