(August 23, 2013 at 6:02 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: Human racial, gender, equality, compassion for the poor and the needy, a desire to bring social justice and equality, pacifism, not taking revenge, separation of Church and state was a little of Jesus's original idea (render unto Caesar), fighting against oppressors and injustice, charity, caring for the weak, treating others with respect even if they are different from you. And so on.
Christianity invented not a single one of these moral elements. It is accurate to say that I share moral qualities which are (in theory if rarely in practice) Christian. Let us also not forget that Christianity is derivative of a religion which espouses many of the opposite traits, calling for death, slavery and persecution in many forms, and does not repudiate any of those teachings.
Quote:So I'm saying to you what you're seeing here comes from God it's not something we invented. Though we did build the Christian religion/s around it. Evidence wise there you go you can see it for yourself.
Morality (and human civilization, which could not exist without moral concepts) predates your God by millennia.