- 13 Apr 2022 05:37
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The morality of the world has always been based on the belief that “might is right” - that the strong and the wealthy and the wise have been blessed by the gods, the proof of which is the fact that they are strong, wealthy and wise of course. Judaism and then Christianity broke open this smug circular logic, and asserted the opposite - that it is the weak and the poor and the ignorant who have been blessed by God, who are “God’s children”. This is the ethics and morality which have come from “somewhere else”, and are not of this world.
annatar1914 wrote:@Potemkin :
Yes indeed, well said. You mentioned Abraham, so with him I'll illustrate an example of what we're talking about: Abraham and Sarah go down into Egypt during hard times and Abraham tells Pharaoh that Sarah is his sister to avoid being murdered by the Egyptians to take her for Pharoah's wife. Long story short, Pharoah finds out and sends them on their way unharmed.
Then there's Jacob's deception of Isaac and Esau, and so on. Themes of hiddeness and trickery, as when Moses was raised by Pharoah's daughter in the midst of the slaughter of the Hebrew male children by the Egyptians, with his real mother as his wet nurse...
And so of course I expect further from God in the future of this nature.
Our pitiful ethics and morality seem to come from somewhere else
The morality of the world has always been based on the belief that “might is right” - that the strong and the wealthy and the wise have been blessed by the gods, the proof of which is the fact that they are strong, wealthy and wise of course. Judaism and then Christianity broke open this smug circular logic, and asserted the opposite - that it is the weak and the poor and the ignorant who have been blessed by God, who are “God’s children”. This is the ethics and morality which have come from “somewhere else”, and are not of this world.
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Marx (Groucho)