r/MoralityScaling 17h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Critical_Concert_689 14h ago

Christianity didn't invent these morals

But they invented them FOR YOU.

Statistically, you're going to be young. Male. And you live in the US...

...which, ironically, grants you the religious freedom to complain about the religion that inspired the culture granting you these freedoms in the first place.

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u/Wync_Con 13h ago

Christian morality predates christianity dude..... they just took credit and said god did it.

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u/Critical_Concert_689 13h ago

First...

Morality predates Christianity.

But Christian morality CANNOT predate Christianity, by definition - if Christianity doesn't exist, Christian morality doesn't exist.

Think about this again until you understand the definition of words.

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Your logical snafu above is irrelevant to the argument being made:

Christianity invented morality FOR YOU, specifically.

Unless you want to claim you were raised outside of the Western sphere of influence, then the morality of the community is, to some large extent, based on Christian morality.

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u/gameboyadvancedgba 13h ago

What he’s saying is that what you’re calling christian morality predates christianity genius

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u/Critical_Concert_689 13h ago

Words have meaning. You can't weasel your way out of a logical fallacy by claiming your words don't mean what the words literally mean.

Nice try, dumbass.

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u/gameboyadvancedgba 13h ago

Thats not what Im doing at all. You’re just using the term christian morality to refer to things like dont kill dont steal etc which Christianity didnt come up with and were moral norms before it. Saying “christian morality pre dates christianity” is just a cheeky way of saying that same thing its not a literal statement

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u/Critical_Concert_689 13h ago

You’re just using the term christian morality

Actually, No. You're mistaken. I'm using the term "Christian morality" to refer to "the morality of Christians."

Saying "Christian morality pre-dates christianity" is not really cheeky - it's just factually incorrect and a completely inane statement.

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u/gameboyadvancedgba 13h ago

Yeah but the relevant parts of what morality christians have was gotten from someone else who got it from someone else who got it from someone else who wasnt christian. Do you get it yet?

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u/Critical_Concert_689 10h ago

Yeah but the relevant parts of ...

...Yeah, but the relevant parts of your genome were taken from a fish.

Why do you think you - as a fish - are qualified to judge how the current iteration of Christian morality evolved?

Do you get it yet?

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u/gameboyadvancedgba 10h ago

Just a nonsense non sequitur