Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?

[Mister Agenda]

At the heart of Christianity is community, family, peace and good will to all mankind and charity as you know.

I take it that you don't live in America. Here, the heart of Christianity is whining about being persecuted, particularly if Christians aren't being allowed to discriminate against gay people, that seems to be what many of them consider the height of persecution. I seem to vaguely remember it kind of being about the things you mentioned about 40 years ago, but that stuff has all become peripheral to the circus of near-continuous attempts to secure special privileges and endorsement from our governement...and the whining about being persecuted whenever they don't get their way or have to live by the same rules that apply to everyone else. The Christians in your part of the world sound like wonderful people. We have them here too--it might even be most of them--but the whining and political ploys pretty much drown them out.

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Values of a God rather than a self centered life then. You probably live in a Christian culture though so we will call it Christian values to avoid beating around the bush.

It would be equally true to say that Western Culture is based on pre-Christian English, Greek, and Roman civilization, culture, government, and thought. American Christians have a tendency to remind people of their roots while the debt we all owe those who preceded them.