|
Morality is that which sustains life. | ||
| Christian Morality | ||
|
HOME The Basics Definitions What Sin Is Morality Applied Thomas Aquinas Fundamentalism Spirit World Creationism List |
False Morality A lot of naive persons pick up false concepts of morality which cause them to assume they are the protectors and promoters of righteousness, while they protect and promote sin. The most significant falsehood in the moral area is the assumption that support of self, or one's own group, is virtue, and opposition to self, or one's own group, is sin. Friends are supposedly virtuous, and enemies are supposedly corrupted. It is the path which seems right to a person but which leads to death (Prov 14:12). It isn't just a fifty-fifty probability that the other side might be right. It is a hundred percent probability that the persons on that path are wrong and promoting corruption. The reason is because concern for forces (support or opposition) will always result in conflicts with truth and justice. Forces destroy realities. Morality requires alignment upon truth and justice, which requires a relationship to objective reality through reason. Persons who are concerned about support or opposition must defy objective reality to promote their concerns. And a hate for truth and reason develops because of the conflicts. In more concrete terms, what one sees happening is that corrupted persons decide any issue, no matter how complex, on a whim, with no contact of reality, because the alignment of forces determines their conclusions. If the good guys say one and one equals three, then it equals three, because they couldn't be wrong. If an enemy says it's two, it can't be two. The only question is who it is that says so. Look what real morality is. It is evaluating objective realities through rationality. That means acquiring some evidence, looking at relationships and developing the surrounding realities. The consistent relationships determine what the truth is. Another method of turning sin into virtue (besides the virtues of group corruption) is using success as the test. If corrupted persons are successful and winning, then they must know what they are doing. Obviously, all objective tests of corruption show failures along the lines of worth and constructivity. But that's no problem; just use a subjective test. The primary subjective test for turning sin into virtue is having fun. If the purpose is to have fun, no one can say someone is not having fun when he claims he is. And no one can say someone should not have fun. Along with having fun there is an element of disdain for puritanical morality which requires people to be miserable. So corrupted persons have a high propensity to always be pretending to be having fun. That mentality says that they know what they are doing and are winners. But the pretense can be extremely tortured, because the reality of sin creates a lot of forces which are covered up by the pretense. Learned Corruption |