There are two ways to relate to morality: the way Christ taught it, and the way religions teach it.

Christ taught morality as a relationship to the victims of sin. Religions teach it as a characteristic of self.

There are several problems with focusing on self. One is hypocrisy. It's too easy to lie about it. Another problem is detraction. It draws attention away from the victims. The most significant problem is that it does not correct one's relationship to the victims or even admit that victims exist.

Christ taught that sin is something that harms someone, not just something that offends God. Therefore, overcoming sin is correcting one's relationship to the victims.

An action is needed to overcome sin. There needs to be a contact with the victims, or potential victims, before proper reactions are created. Then there needs to be a result which is desired by the potential victims. If the victim does not like the result, then it is just more lies and corruption. This point pertains to correcting moral behavior, not attacking someone else's sin with truth, which of course is opposed.

This situation not only eliminates the lies and ignorance, it reverses the forces of sin showing the potential perpetrator how to function morally and creating routines or habits of doing so.

There is no conscious awareness in the world that this moral path exists or that it is abandoned in the word's moralizing. The moralizers move in the direction their subconscious forces take them, which is away from accountability to the victims and toward an imagined relationship to God which takes care of everything. God is supposedly the source of morality, so there are no victims besides God.

That type of morality allows corrupted persons to claim to be moral, while they continue to, directly and indirectly, victimize vulnerable persons. Over time, they develop rationalizations for their standard resulting in theologies which are antithetical to everything Christ taught. Why then do they call themselves Christians? Because they do not have the slightest clue as to what Christ taught.

The fraud in moral theology is demonstrated by comparing it to the harsh realities of the criminal justice systems. The significance of crime is based on the consequences to the victims, and punishment is extracted from the perpetrators to the point of death.

The inescapable realities of crime demonstrate the truth about morality. Why wouldn't the same principles apply to all sin. They obviously do, and Christ taught morality in the same terms of significance to the victims, except that he did not say humans should be extracting punishment.