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227 2014-01-03 05:26:11 (edited by oTom 2014-01-03 05:31:45)
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I like your post, Avatar. Very good arrangement of words.
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Chiming in to note that this is a thread and discussion worthy of us as a community.
Carry on.
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"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague
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"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague
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JC's morals came from the jews, just saying.
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If our sense of morality came from Christian principles it wouldn't cause us to balk at Christian morality. That makes no sense.
Our sense of morality does not come from cultural Christianity. It comes from our instinctive sense of empathy.
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And I'm not speaking for everyone here, just society as a whole.
238 2014-01-03 11:16:16 (edited by Dave 2014-01-03 11:17:51)
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The problem with anyone insisting that "Christian morality" is a thing is that no Christian moral statements are original to Christianity. The laws of The Pentateuch (which were Jewish anyway, before Christianity claimed the OT as their own) are based in large part on Hammurabi's laws. Jesus' Golden Rule was written before him by Plato, Hillel, etc. There is no truly original moral code in the Bible. As Christopher Hitchens said: "Name me a moral action that a believer can perform and an unbeliever can't." You can't do it.
240 2014-01-03 12:05:33 (edited by Eddie 2014-01-03 12:09:24)
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Also, on a different point, as someone married to a Catholic and with a deep respect for people's faiths....there is no way historically you can look to the rise of Christianity and not see the influence of other monotheistic religions in terms of creation myths, moral code, afterlife structure, etc.
This is going to sound harsher than it is meant to be, but Christianity is akin to a Judaism/Zoroastrinism mashup fan-fic. Jesus historically existed, and the Pentateuch was in place, but many of the gaps of the old testament were filled in with elements of pre existing concepts.
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So in answer to the original question, maybe, but it depends who you ask.
248 2014-01-03 13:22:44 (edited by Abbie 2014-01-03 13:24:39)
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Look up the "Black Sea Theory" for an interesting possible explanation of the prevalence of flood myths.
And bear in mind that any ancient tale about "the whole world" being flooded is being told by people whose entire world was extremely small :-)
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