>CW: OTOH, materialism has no moral base with which to condemn evils
>committed in the name of materialism.
>
>And neither does christianity have a moral base with which to condemn
>evils commited in the name of christianity either then.
Yes it does -- the teachings of Jesus Christ.
>CW: No act can "distort" materialist morality, it can only violate your
>personal, subjective "empathy". Indeed, if materialism must rely on a
>concept as nebulous and subjective as "empathy" for a moral base, it
>cannot even define evil an any universal sense.
>
>And the same applies to christian morality as well. No objective standard,
>no eternal standard, no universal standard.
Pim, you can argue coherently that Christ's teachings are not universal,
not eternal (though He Himself clearly stated otherwise), but to argue that
they are not objective is absurd. They are right there, waiting to be
read, and not at all difficult to grasp. Try it, you may like it.
>Any condemnation of evils
>committed in the name of christianity are based upon a personal subjective
>interpretation of the teachings and morality of the bible. History has
>shown this all too clearly.
I addressed this in a previous post. Christian ethics are certainly
capable of being distorted; materialist ethics -- well, you can't distort
what isn't there.
Chuck
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Chuck Warman
cwarman@wf.net (Wichita Falls, TX)
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"The abdication of Belief / makes the Behavior small."
----Emily Dickinson