The Necessity of Moral Critique

Quick disclaimer for ya:

Dave and I go back a long time, so we're allowed to be hard on eachother. I'm very aware that Dave's views on God and morality do not reflect those of all Christians, and hopefully it doesn't come off that way. If your views ARE similar, then I suppose this is for you, too. Otherwise, feel free to take anything I say with a pillar of salt... er, I mean... a grain.

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[Missykitty1994]

I was beaten when I was younger and I'm mentally scarred due to it.

I now have bipolar disorder and I act out [via violence] when someone annoys me.

It's how I was taught.

I try to control it, I know how immoral it is.

But it was drilled into my brain in youth - it's hard to forget.

I'm honestly going to get that sorted before I even start to have kids.

[TheoreticalBullshit]

I think that's a very courageous, self-aware and moral thing for you to say. I'm so sorry to hear about your past.

[laurenmcintyre]

I don't know any Christians that claim to be perfect, but most I know really feel superior to nonbelievers. They think they know beyond a doubt that they are right. Only, they all believe in the God they want to see, not the God in the Bible. They're quick to quote the Bible when it suits them, then dismiss or misinterpret it when it doesn't make God or Christianity look too good. As for finding the God within, more power to them as long as they don't use that God to hurt others.

[ritchloui]

Perhaps the “essential desire to do good” is the mature outcome of complex and delicate developmental processes. Such psychological maturation is easily disrupted and any grown Man can be completely broken. Sufferers tend to take little pleasure in finding out about the world nor show any breadth or depth of interest or understanding. Given the extreme violence and horror of Man’s past and present it is clear that very few have genuinely flourished in their own lifetime.

[Seraph821]

@ShadesAndRed The bible says that the entire bible is right and perfect. Jesus also said that he did not come to change the law in any way, and that the law laid down in the old testament would remain until the end of days. Of course in typical bible fashion, Jesus would then go on the contradict this statement, and many more, by changing random laws.

Now how exactly are you saying people warped the law? As he said, it was made very clear what was right and what was wrong. Where does god say jk?

[ShadesAndRed]

You can't take a few verses from the Bible alone and apply them out of context.

Do you only read one chapter of book and then claim to know all about the entire text? Understanding even the surface of the Bible requires you to read the whole thing, just like you would read any other book.

Plus you're using scripture from Old Testament laws, which were challenged by Jesus himself because of how people warped the law.

Don't spew a tiny piece scripture to argue a point that goes against all of it.

[tahoemack]

There is a hell. The hell is not the one Christians believe in, rather it is here on earth now. As a homosexual, and this is true for all GLBTQ people, we are living in hell now,. It is made up by bigoted, prejudiced, hating people calling themselves Christians. They give lip service to morality, but they do not practice it. The Christian hell was so easy to give up.

[Alaric11]

I think wearing V-necks are morrally wrong. In fact I am 100% certain of it.

[TheStigma]

Allways a pleasure to watch you TB. The carity of your thinking is like a breeze of fresh air in a place where unreasoned optionions usually reign.

[steinarrexfaroensis]

Dave. It's the god damned cops!

[wlrugby]

small note, in the bible i read the slave can die from your beatings, as long as he doesn't die on the spot. if he bleeds internally for a few hours, leaves, and then dies, its ok, and the loss of your slave is apparently punishment enough

[pumpkinheadedmf]

Although I generally agree with your overall idea, Hitler didn't singlehandedly imagine this ridiculous idea that eventually became the Holocaust. Eugenics was hugely popular in the '30s and '40s, in Europe and in America. The Nazi Party simply took it way too far. Nowadays we consider it completely immoral but back then eugenics was common. That's where Hitler's Holocaust came from. The Nazi's just took a common ideal WAY too far. Hitler didn't have some Heavenly Vision or anything like that.