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SR2Z 2 days ago

The morality that Christianity pushes is not necessarily what's best for society, or even better than what we have now.

pfannkuchen 2 days ago | parent [-]

Did I say it was?

Christian morality includes “don’t be selfish” as a high ranking rule.

Being selfish is against the religion, therefore selfish Christians are not implementing Christianity properly, or in other words they are being “bad Christians”.

I don’t think of morality as one thing, I’m not claiming Christians or well functioning Christians are “more moral” because that is a nonsensical framing. It would be like saying that frogs are “more animal” than goats. No, they are just different animals.

SR2Z a day ago | parent [-]

> Being selfish is against the religion, therefore selfish Christians are not implementing Christianity properly, or in other words they are being “bad Christians”.

So is a Christian also allowed to own a profitable business? Isn't that pretty selfish, instead of making only the minimum and using the rest to help the needy?

Or is a profitable business OK, but raising prices by more than inflation isn't?

Or can a Christian run a factory that dumps runoff straight into a river?

"Being selfish" is itself poorly defined. The Bible is not much use - when it's not contradicting itself, it's vague.

Christian morality is not one single thing, hence my "no true Scotsman" comment.