OMG I AGREE
anonymous
February 10 2011, 18:43:52 UTC
It's Allis ~ I don't do live journal yet...
This is the point I've been trying to make my entire life.
Christians instantly go on the defensive, once someone doesn't agree with their parameters of what it means to be "moral." For whatever it's worth, *I* beleive morals are personal. What might feel right & just for ME, may not be for everyone else.
Faith doesn't enter into it for me. If you don't feel guilt if you steal something...then evidently in YOUR parameters, stealing is ok. Does this mean you are sociopath? Not to me. Do I agree that stealing is OK, no. Have I done it? Yes. But, that's ME. It has nothing to do with faith. It has to do with personal feeling.
It's not even Nature vs Nurtue. My Mum is a Christian and, for example, she taught me that stealing is wrong. To me, stealing CAN be justified, but I don't think it solves anything. Will I teach this feeling to me daughter? No. I'll give her the parameters that *I* live by & if she doesn't agree, we'll discuss it. I'll give her a loving, nurturing evrionment to grow up in & what she chooses to do with that, once she's older, is HER choice. EVERYONE's NATURE is different. Does a professional theif feel guilty? I'm guessing not, but he's being paid to do a job (in some cases) so who's to tell him it's wrong?
Anyhow, that's all I have to say. Here, here on everything you said & wanted to say.
Re: OMG I AGREEcinnamon_kissesFebruary 10 2011, 23:34:15 UTC
Hi there, bb!
Thank you, it's wonderful to be agreed with.
I think you're getting at the main problem I have with Christianity - other than the part where it tells me I'm double damned for being bi and an unbeliever. It's that Christianity makes these absolute moral statements and equates all infractions as equal with equal punishment.
Logic and reason can give us a code of ethics, a guidebook of "right" and "wrong" without condemning all crimes equally. Stealing is always "wrong", but we can acknowledge that there are sometimes justifications for unethical behavior, and that is why there are different punishments for different kinds of stealing.
And Christianity certainly passes judgment on things that don't make sense. Sexuality, for instance - to call sex "wrong" between two consenting adults is nonsense. No one's getting hurt - and no one should be punished for that. If Christians believe it's better to wait, then that's their prerogative - I would even applaud them for it, if some of them weren't busy trying to block contraception and advocating abstinence education in schools.
Anyhoo. I just wish everyone could be reasonable. =/
This is the point I've been trying to make my entire life.
Christians instantly go on the defensive, once someone doesn't agree with their parameters of what it means to be "moral." For whatever it's worth, *I* beleive morals are personal. What might feel right & just for ME, may not be for everyone else.
Faith doesn't enter into it for me. If you don't feel guilt if you steal something...then evidently in YOUR parameters, stealing is ok. Does this mean you are sociopath? Not to me. Do I agree that stealing is OK, no. Have I done it? Yes. But, that's ME. It has nothing to do with faith. It has to do with personal feeling.
It's not even Nature vs Nurtue. My Mum is a Christian and, for example, she taught me that stealing is wrong. To me, stealing CAN be justified, but I don't think it solves anything. Will I teach this feeling to me daughter? No. I'll give her the parameters that *I* live by & if she doesn't agree, we'll discuss it. I'll give her a loving, nurturing evrionment to grow up in & what she chooses to do with that, once she's older, is HER choice. EVERYONE's NATURE is different. Does a professional theif feel guilty? I'm guessing not, but he's being paid to do a job (in some cases) so who's to tell him it's wrong?
Anyhow, that's all I have to say. Here, here on everything you said & wanted to say.
Good luck with this class!
<3 Allis
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Thank you, it's wonderful to be agreed with.
I think you're getting at the main problem I have with Christianity - other than the part where it tells me I'm double damned for being bi and an unbeliever. It's that Christianity makes these absolute moral statements and equates all infractions as equal with equal punishment.
Logic and reason can give us a code of ethics, a guidebook of "right" and "wrong" without condemning all crimes equally. Stealing is always "wrong", but we can acknowledge that there are sometimes justifications for unethical behavior, and that is why there are different punishments for different kinds of stealing.
And Christianity certainly passes judgment on things that don't make sense. Sexuality, for instance - to call sex "wrong" between two consenting adults is nonsense. No one's getting hurt - and no one should be punished for that. If Christians believe it's better to wait, then that's their prerogative - I would even applaud them for it, if some of them weren't busy trying to block contraception and advocating abstinence education in schools.
Anyhoo. I just wish everyone could be reasonable. =/
Thanks for the comment, honey. <3
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