Christ taught that there is a logic to morality defining human responsibilities based upon the laws of life. Evidence shows that sin victimizes persons and corrupts minds, but theology portrays sin as being subjectively arbitrated by God and therefore in need of being interpreted by those who speak for God.

The fatalism left the world's moral analysis with a large gap in it. The gap is in the abstract basics.

Basics are the realities upon which other realities depend. They create the bedrock of all subjects.

This website defines the basics of morality and builds upon them to explain moral concepts. The basic definitions have to be derived, because they don't exist elsewhere. They don't exist, because theologians do not understand the abstractions of morality. They use religion to rationalize the subconscious forces which cause sin rather than overcome them.

What is often not accepted about morality is its objective origins, it's social significance and the related human responsibilities. While some of it is obvious and cannot be denied, it is not in the theology. For example, bigotry, elitism, jealousy, domination, exploitation and oppression are not corrected by theology.

Without a definitive analysis, errors cannot be corrected. With it, errors cannot be sustained.

In a different way, Christ produced the same subject, but he could not get very far into philosophical abstractions due to obvious limitations including an absence of a written medium. He used parables heavily to stabilize important points in nonabstract terms.

Reason is the primary human responsibility. Corrupt persons attack and obstruct the reasoning process (see reason page). This material counters the corruption by describing how to add reason to morality.

The validity of moral analysis must be considered in these terms:

Truth is Universal.

There is only one truth, because it is objective and universal. For example, one and one can only equal two, not three or anything else.

Christ created the starting point in evaluating moral truth, and he said we should judge for ourselves what right and wrong are. (Luke 12:57).

Judging for ourselves does not mean the truth is negotiable or arbitrary. Quite the contrary, it is invariable. It has origins in objective reality, which is the same for everyone.

But there are also elements of it that are beyond human minds. One of Christ's primary purposes was to describe essential elements of the truth which humans could not determine.

The undeterminable elements of truth are the nonbasic (perceivable) specifics. Being nonbasic, they cannot be determined through logic. By contrast, the basics are determined through a combination of logic and evidence.

Speaking on one's own.

Then Christ said that he who speaks on his own is bent on self-glorification (John 7:18). He said he was not speaking on his own but was told what to say by God, as did Isaiah and Jeremiah.

Does this requirement contradict that of determining for ourselves what truth is? Not at all. Speaking on one's own applies to authority, not reason.

One of the primary human responsibilities is to determine what reality is through a process of rationality. Describing how this process works is the primary purpose of this material. Infact, Christ taught how to determine moral truth through the objective realities of life. It is obvious that his purpose was to produce the starting point and bench marks.

Speaking on one's own occurs when a) it matters who says so, and b) someone didn't tell them what to say. It is what Paul and Thomas Aquinas did. First, they did not relate much of their material to Christ's teaching. And then they dictated concepts which could not be determined through logic in combination with evidence. It's the equivalent of telling people what they should believe instead of how to understand the subject. In other words, they were dictating reality.

For example, what is the evidence and logic to indicate what speaking in tongues is? I can't imagine what the logic and evidence would be. Therefore, I must take someone else's word for it, and they become a god over my reality.

This method of creating gods is the equivalent of gnosticism—one of the pillars of heresy. The basis of it is esoteric knowledge. Similar to it is authoritarianism, which is pervasive throughout the professions. It says "if you cannot understand how one and one equals three, we can; and therefore we must be gods over your reality."

Freud and Einstein serve that purpose. They supposedly revealed something that most of us cannot understand, and therefore the gods must interpret it for us.

Charisma is the modern version of the gnostic heresy. The charismatics say only they can speak in tongues and understand what it means, and therefore they must control the religion.

The persons who promote such elitistism are not aware of the objective origins of reality and the human responsibility for evaluating it through rationality. This website attempts to explain how the process works in applying rationality to morality. It is not as much a question of who is right and who is wrong as whether the proper procedure is used to derive the truth.

The official Catholic theology, which is supposed to be God's infallible word, says that it is a sin to apply rationality to morality, because human minds are too imperfect, and church authorities must do it for them. (See Veritatis Splendor, 32).

The most basic human function and responsibility is to produce rationality. The most important thing to apply it to is morality. There could be no greater injustice than to not be able to apply rationality to morality.

Of course, the standard of relating to morality without rationality is a contradiction which cannot be achieved. The primary significance of the theology is to block criticism and correction of errors.

A lot of persons assume that dictating reality is what religion is all about. They error. Modern awareness and science show that dictating reality is always a corruption.

If you look more closely, you'll notice that God does not dictate reality, which is why he is so invisible, and why he created molecules as an objective source of reality.

Dictating commandments is not the same as dictating reality. You should notice that Christ did the opposite of dictating reality—he taught people how to acquire reality as knowledge, while the lessons of life serve as the primary source.

The Purpose of this Material.

So there is more than a whim in producing this website. There is a high degree of necessity in producing truth on this subject. Truth cannot be decreed; it evolves automatically through the interactions of realities.

One of the most important moral principles is that sin cannot exist in the light of truth. The reason why is because even the most corrupted persons (including satan) cannot openly admit their sin. Sin must always be concealed, denied or rationalized.

Therefore, sin can only be perpetrated where there is darkness, meaning a deficiency of truth. And the most corrupted persons are the most sensitized to truth reacting most extremely to justify themselves when truth is produced.

What this principle adds up to is that truth is how sin is overcome. Since all problems are caused by sin, developing truth is the answer to problems. However, corrupted persons hate anyone who produces truth about problems or morality in general, so the path is very difficult.