Seriously though - excellent question and one I had never thought of. If you think about it there is less point to being moral for a theist (particularly a Christian one) than there is for an atheist.
As a theist you can be a total shit your whole life and then, at the last moment confess all and enter heaven.
And that's just one side of it. What is the morality of abrogating all moral decisions to a third party when you have the ability and intelligence to make your own moral decisions? Going with the flow - even when its against what you think of as moral (and that must have happened too many times to count throughout history) has got to be utterly morally reprehensible. Its laziness and cowardice all rolled into one.
As a theist you can be a total shit your whole life and then, at the last moment confess all and enter heaven.
And that's just one side of it. What is the morality of abrogating all moral decisions to a third party when you have the ability and intelligence to make your own moral decisions? Going with the flow - even when its against what you think of as moral (and that must have happened too many times to count throughout history) has got to be utterly morally reprehensible. Its laziness and cowardice all rolled into one.
Kuusi palaa, ja on viimeinen kerta kun annan vaimoni laittaa jouluvalot!
