(October 7, 2014 at 1:55 am)genkaus Wrote:(October 7, 2014 at 1:49 am)Jenny A Wrote: Frankly, in any context, I don't thing our emotions are iniquities---only our actions are crimes. This is where I differ greatly from Christians. If you hate with a passion and yet restrain yourself for moral reasons you are virtuous. It is what you do, not what you want to do that matters.
Judging emotions as moral or immoral is how we decide whether those emotions should be acted upon. For example, if I see something good and want to steal it, I would then determine that according to my moral principles, that emotion is immoral - so I shouldn't act on it. While the action is a crime, the emotion itself qualifies for immorality.
Really? I'd say morality is behavior based on reason. Don't steal, that's moral. Want to steal? That a test. Steal? That's failure and immoral.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
