(April 17, 2013 at 7:33 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(April 17, 2013 at 7:17 pm)Ryantology Wrote: The use of force to ensure order (after all, there will always be deviants) is not the same as dictating morality on the basis of having more power than other people.Not true. In a social contract theory, socially accepted norms define what is and is not moral. Social contracts develop from the exercise of different kinds of power from charm to brute force.
I guess someone adherent to a misanthropic worldview would deliberately ignore the subtleties between interacting social forces and monolithic power play.
Your statement applies to only one very narrow and rare position about the foundation of Christian morals, one that has not even entered the conversation. Go tilt some windmills.[/quote]
Your catchphrase should be "Stop saying things which are true but I hate hearing". God is the unified, total, and very frequently deadly force which allegedly fuels your morality. You do good because sky daddy says so, because you want sky daddy's promised rewards and you want to avoid sky daddy's promised punishments. Christian morals are more about glorifying the dictator than they are about establishing stable social orders. Read your Bible one of these days, I'm not convinced you ever have.
