Ralph2--"the charitable/loving Judeo-Christian God".
the judeo God initiated contact with men though Israel and generously
delivered them to the promised land in spite of Israel letting Him down many times. He was a sterner God
in the beginning and definitions of God's love and right
and wrong were first introduced through the old Testament to the Israelites. God allowed
divorce for example" because, He says of the hardness of their heart ".
The concept of love, forgiveness , repentance are hard to swallow out of the blue. So God started slowly.
Only later, in the new Testament does the true measure of His love come though. He suffered Himself ( by becoming
true man, through His Son, Jesus, part of God ) to show
people what true love is. Giving up your legitimate well being to benefit another person who is suffering, freely as He did.
So far, unconditional love for our fellow man is the
highest expression expression of our humanity and there
has never been anything else in nature to replicate that.
This is why I believe there is so much opposition to the teaching of evolution is schools.
Evolution, survival of the fittest; look out for No 1.
Evolution and human secularism essentially
disembowel Judeo-Christianity of all their concepts and teaching.
Why?
Because it is absolutely irrational to " die for your brother ".
It is philosophically unacceptable.
This is why we have seen the pathetic failure of
social engineering a hall mark of the
20 th century welfare state in Europe, Communism,
Socialism, The USA's own Democratic
party.
Their motto has been:
" thou shalt be good because we say so ".
-Pay astronomical taxes to help thy neighbor; even take
your property. etc. etc.
-Be nice to your fellow man/woman.
Smart kids schooled in our pure-Darwinian-school-of-thought-High Schools correctly
responded:
" You must be kidding ".
So they proceeded: " Off with their head ".
Results:
Kids killing kids.
Spouses abandoning each other and their kids.
("The hell with them").
In rapid development, refusal to pay higher taxes to help the elderly:Hospital care rapidly crumbling.
Reelection of a State Leader who is a convicted perjurer, liar, womanizer, adulterer, traitor of his country to China )etcetc.
A complete loss of all previous Judeo Christian standards.
The current ethical and moral standards are all defined by the evolutionary concepts taught in Public High Schools;
Look out for No 1, me. So what we have here is
" a great economy, good for me.Everything else doesn't matter. I will vote to reelect him".
Also note:
In other countries were the removal of the Judeo-Christian God has been more severe ( Atheism and Communism; Russia, East Europe ) the results have been , as expected, even more severe:
A total cllapse of a) family,b)economy,c) health care
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Message #911 from Ralphd2 at Sep 21 1999 12:22AM
>>( and by God that I mean the charitable/loving Judeo-Christian God )<<
what bible are you reading from?
the charitable/loving god who commanded israel to destroy it's enemies root and branch?
eye for an eye? charatible?
>>All kinds
of atrocities and wrongs have been committed by man
on man in the name of some moral standard.<<
i agree with you on this one.
but people often disagree on the nature of evil.
good/evil is relative in our universe. if i eat deer meat, it is good for me, but bad for the deer, correct?
no one ever (unless they are agreeably insane) believes they are evil.
morals, in my understanding, are usually something like "we don't eat pork, becouse it is unclean"
ethics are a social construct instituted becouse people need top know what is or is not permitted of
them within the society they are living.
ethics are usually based off of human nature (ie. don't kill others or all the others will get together to kill you)
and the like.
there are allways people who want to break the rules, tho, no matter how stiff the penalty
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