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Why should Christians be moral?
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RE: Why should Christians be moral?
When it comes to morality, it would be expected that a Christian's approach would be consistent, since it's pretty simple: whatever god says is moral, is moral. The explanations for how that works are a bit less consistent, though much more amusing and/or horrifying. Even the tale of the young prince, which brings up the arbitrary nature of salvation (and along with the story of Job, should scare the wits out of any Christian), has a simple explanation once we agree that moral = whatever god says it is.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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Why should Christians be moral? - by Lemonvariable72 - November 28, 2014 at 1:59 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by vorlon13 - November 28, 2014 at 2:08 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Brian37 - November 28, 2014 at 2:10 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by atheism is illogical - November 28, 2014 at 2:11 pm
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RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by abaris - November 28, 2014 at 2:33 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by The Grand Nudger - November 28, 2014 at 3:25 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Lek - November 29, 2014 at 3:05 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Brian37 - November 29, 2014 at 3:22 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Tonus - November 30, 2014 at 10:24 am
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Whateverist - November 30, 2014 at 11:25 am
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Lek - November 30, 2014 at 2:19 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Tonus - November 30, 2014 at 2:55 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Lek - November 30, 2014 at 3:03 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Tonus - November 30, 2014 at 3:11 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Lek - November 30, 2014 at 3:21 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Tonus - November 30, 2014 at 3:39 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Lek - November 30, 2014 at 4:15 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by abaris - November 30, 2014 at 4:21 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Tonus - November 30, 2014 at 4:59 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Whateverist - November 29, 2014 at 3:13 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Lemonvariable72 - November 29, 2014 at 3:47 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by abaris - November 29, 2014 at 3:58 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Lemonvariable72 - November 29, 2014 at 5:57 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by The Grand Nudger - November 29, 2014 at 8:16 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by abaris - November 29, 2014 at 8:20 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Jenny A - November 30, 2014 at 1:43 am
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by vorlon13 - November 29, 2014 at 8:43 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by dyresand - November 30, 2014 at 12:28 am
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Vicki Q - December 1, 2014 at 1:57 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Whateverist - December 14, 2014 at 2:01 pm
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RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Drich - December 3, 2014 at 1:47 am
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by dyresand - December 3, 2014 at 1:54 am
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Esquilax - December 3, 2014 at 2:57 pm
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RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by abaris - December 1, 2014 at 4:45 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Cato - December 1, 2014 at 4:38 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Whateverist - December 2, 2014 at 7:21 am
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by dyresand - December 2, 2014 at 3:06 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Drich - December 3, 2014 at 1:58 am
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by dyresand - December 3, 2014 at 2:01 am
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Drich - December 3, 2014 at 2:09 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by pgrimes15 - December 18, 2014 at 9:21 am
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Lemonvariable72 - December 3, 2014 at 2:16 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Drich - December 3, 2014 at 3:14 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by strawdawg - December 18, 2014 at 5:13 am
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RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by robvalue - December 18, 2014 at 5:17 am
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Godschild - December 18, 2014 at 7:04 am
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RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Esquilax - December 18, 2014 at 1:58 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Whateverist - December 18, 2014 at 7:08 am
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RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Tonus - December 18, 2014 at 8:27 am
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RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by FatAndFaithless - December 18, 2014 at 9:23 am
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by Tonus - December 18, 2014 at 9:38 am
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RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by dyresand - December 18, 2014 at 2:01 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by FatAndFaithless - December 18, 2014 at 2:05 pm
RE: Why should Christians be moral? - by dyresand - December 18, 2014 at 2:10 pm
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