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jakelafort posted an update 7 years ago
Simon, i don’t think there is anything i can say about Jesus that Davis has not covered.
As an anti-theist i am not in love with trumpeting the perceived virtues of Jesus as it suggests that Christians are holier than shit. HOLY SHIT! The pervasive myths concerning the necessity of religion as a moral force/guide are still going strong. So many atheists make me quack with perplexity when i hear/read them defending themselves…see i don’t believe in god and i am pretty ethical. So why use Jesus as a paragon of virtue when there is so much myth and uncertainty along with frank unethical teachings if the guy even existed? Instead we ought to be unanimous in requiring reason as a guide and conceding that many ethical issues are ambiguous while others have only one ethical solution.
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There has been a book just published called “Science and the Good: the tragic quest for the foundations of morality” which shows convincingly that so far in the existing literature or widely known philosophy, it’s not possible to apply reason to morality. It’s worth trying to do so, even if people have mostly failed up until now. -
“Jesus” – there’s always room for a character example or mentor figure in people’s lives, and he provides a good one. There are of course many other good role models around.
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