(January 8, 2010 at 9:22 pm)TruthWorthy Wrote:(December 26, 2009 at 6:32 am)fr0d0 Wrote: I'd say spiritual health could be very practical in the form of moral guidance. I certainly felt that having being failed badly by medical professionals who experimented on me not considering the whole person as it didn't enter their remit as they saw it.In your understanding 'spiritual health' is directly related to 'moral guidance'? Something which is imposed on an individual level, by parents and education institution. So the Nazi's could say they were living within their moral principles and therefore have a spiritual healthiness in their 'being' . . .
Or is it your opinion that a healthy (overactive) "inner voice" of "morality" is the subjective sign of spiritual health.
I see the concept of spiritual as meaning directly character/personality; health as in functioning effectively. So spiritual health really becomes personality that's practical.
I don't really know what you're saying here TW. 'Imposed' is a loaded qualification. I'd say morality is learned and inspired, and also innate. In Nazi society a certain moral compass was unnaturally imposed. It follows that a person not choosing to follow 'healthy' morals (which is what I'd call Christian morals) would be similarly at risk of skewed morals.
An 'inner voice' is corruptible internally and externally.
