RE: Why should Christians be moral?
November 28, 2014 at 3:25 pm
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2014 at 3:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 28, 2014 at 2:11 pm)atheism is illogical Wrote: What differentiates Christianity from every other religion is that Christianity is based on what God has done for us through Jesus Christ—divine accomplishment.An entire meso-american pantheon threw itself into the sun so that human beings wouldn't freeze to death, so that the corn would continue to grow.
One measly demigod against an entire divine court.
Christianity, like all the rest - requests that we pay something back to those forces which the faithful feel have done us some service, and implies (or directly states) that it is some failing of ours if we choose not to do so (often enough, enforced by a stick, either divine or mundane). But inasmuch as what a god is said to have done for us...particularly as set against what other gods are said to have done......christianity barely registers. At the end of the day, all of the promises are empty - but I figured we may as well not gloss over the contents of the various gifts or favors on offer to those that might bend the knee.
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