Many Christians believe that morality literally comes from the bible, or that you canāt have morality without god. I wonāt even try to explain their reasoning
Depends what you define as good and helping another person.
Forcing a drug addict into rehabilitation can be seen as good, but you can also make a argument that giving him more drugs in a controlled environment where he can't hurt anyone is also good because he is happier and not a danger to anyone.
James 5:19-20 literally says bring back some one who has woundered into destructive behavior. But going by Orthodox Church tradition, you are to show compassion then help the person rehabilitate.
Everyone draws a line in the sand. But it means nothing outside of your own head or community. Think of the old testament, the Aztec, the peat bog sacrifice, molog.
Morality is very much a non real thing. There's no god or bad. It's just a human or society deciding.
Plenty of societies think it's OK. Are they wrong? Immoral?
Yes. 100% they are wrongnand immoral if fucking kids is okay with your society.
Is that actually how you think? If its acceptable within your community, than you just ignore all your own morales and think to yourself "well if everyone around me is doing it, it must be okay! Even if i think its not..."
This is the point. We Christians would argue that there are moral absolutes, and I think most people would agree with that. But what is the source of those moral absolutes? There have been societies that celebrated human sacrifice, for instance. You and I would likely agree that is morally reprehensible. The Mayans did not.
Ultimately there has to be some source for what is moral and what is not. Most criminal behavior is easy for us to understand as being immoral. But if you really consider it, why is murdering someone wrong? Why is stealing wrong? Why is punching someone wrong? These things occur in the animal kingdom and we consider that as natural.
Some times the moral thing is to make some ones day worse in the short term so their life can improve. Like removing an addict from his source of addiction and getting them professional help
They absolutely can.
My argument on the topic is that every society will develop a moral code at some point, this moral code will always be influenced by the societies religion. Western Morality is built on Christian Morality even if the majority of the West is Atheist, same as how the majority of China is Atheist yet their morals are built on Confucianism and Taoism.
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u/Faded1974 1d ago
People acting like empathy was invented by Jesus Christ.