fundamentalists are not the epitome of the more general category of theists, as you keep implying (e.g. your comment "especially fundamentalists")
i would say that my morality is absolutely centred, rooted, dependent on god; that doesn't mean that if suddenly it was proved that god didn't exist i would become immoral, but my morality would have to change (probably only in subtle ways, but it would certainly change).
Let us face it: Christian 'morality' as espoused in the Bible is abhorrent. It's cruel, it's twisted. Torture and murder and sacrifice of first-borns is okay if God wills it. No modern, thinking, moral person can deny that the God of the Bible is fucked-up.
this is also a gross generalisation. the bible is not one text with a homogenous image of god. it is many texts with at least as many different conceptions of god and morality - it's totally unfair to say that the whole thing depicts a fucked-up god.
when you talk about christians who do not hold to the morality espoused in the bible, i hope you're not thinking of me. yes, i take a critical approach to the bible and the moralities found in it; but i also believe that in a non-literal sense, the bible is god-breathed and means a lot to me.
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Date: 2008-03-14 01:54 am (UTC)i would say that my morality is absolutely centred, rooted, dependent on god; that doesn't mean that if suddenly it was proved that god didn't exist i would become immoral, but my morality would have to change (probably only in subtle ways, but it would certainly change).
Let us face it: Christian 'morality' as espoused in the Bible is abhorrent. It's cruel, it's twisted. Torture and murder and sacrifice of first-borns is okay if God wills it. No modern, thinking, moral person can deny that the God of the Bible is fucked-up.
this is also a gross generalisation. the bible is not one text with a homogenous image of god. it is many texts with at least as many different conceptions of god and morality - it's totally unfair to say that the whole thing depicts a fucked-up god.
when you talk about christians who do not hold to the morality espoused in the bible, i hope you're not thinking of me. yes, i take a critical approach to the bible and the moralities found in it; but i also believe that in a non-literal sense, the bible is god-breathed and means a lot to me.