Hi Platt, all, > Platt, you asked: > > All of which raises the question: Is Christian morality also an > intellectual level morality? --
If what you are talking about the Golden Rule, aka the ethics of reciprocity I would agree. Why would anyone take me seriously if I do to them what I say that I don't want done to me? This is an exteremly rational approach to morality. In fact, virtually every culture/religion has developed it's own articulation of this moral strategy. See http://www.religioustolerance.org/reciproc.htm However, Christians generally view morality as trying not to anger their god rather than in terms of trying to find ways of promoting human flourishing or promoting the evolution of static patterns toward dynamic quality. So I would say that Christian ethics may often be consistent with an intellectual approach to morality, but it is based on authority, a social pattern, rather than intellect. The idea of the MOQ is pick up and dust off such social patterns and see which ones are promoting intellectual intellectual freedom while controlling biological threats to society and suppose those, while opposing the ones that aren't doing their job. The real question seems to be, is Christianity doing it's job as a social pattern of freeing intellect while controlling biological patterns? Best, Steve Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
