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It’s peculiar to me the concept that to them morality is really just obedience
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Anonymous 1w

It’s not a particularly *useful* morality… when you’re thrust into a situation and you don’t know what to do it doesn’t help. Or if you get into a Cult, that provides the exact same “morality”- unquestioning obedience can provide good and bad things, but it’s not exactly a good moral frame

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Anonymous 1w

I mean this is a very good summary of their concept of objective morality and is also why it’s a bad moral system. There’s no consideration about whether something harms people or is harmless, all of their morality is based on a list of rules in a book (or at least that’s what they claim, very often they ignore the rules they don’t like)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

It falls under authoritative morality more so than anything. At least to me, it’s just also interesting because I can’t fathom not rationalizing the moral reasoning behind a command or belief and being okay with that. It’s genuinely foreign to me as a concept

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

To them it’s objective. It’s authoritative, but they believe that God is the ultimate source of all morality, so whatever he says is objectively moral. I feel like many Christians do ultimately rationalize the morality, because they ignore commandments like not eating shellfish, and most are against the capital punishment for minor crimes. It’s the ones that don’t rationalize the moral reasoning that are scary, because they are willing to follow anything they believe is God’s command.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

But there are some really weird theological hoops that conservative Christians have to go through about how “oh all the old rules about shellfish don’t count now because Jesus rewrote the law” while still trying to cite Old Testament verses for their homophobia

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Jesus did rewrite the law. The ultimate commandment is to love God with all your heart, soul, and mind and the second command is to love others. Those who strictly follow the Old Testament are actually living the way of the Pharisees, who were criticized by Jesus.

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