You completely missed my distinction between theology and ethics. Your last paragraph has nothing whatever to do with Christian ethics and suggests that you know nothing of my "brand of bullshit Christian morality" by which I mean what Jesus preached, particularly the Sermon on the Mount). Instead that last paragraph refers to Christian theology. I reject that too. Most people who call themselves Christian seem to believe that accepting Jesus as their savior allows them to ignore what he actually said (so very similar to what the Buddha, Gandhi and many other non-Christians have taught).
And I don't where you get the idea that I consider my own sins "mysteriously above reproach." Quite the contrary. Let me quote Shakespeare again:
Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer, doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy."
Or, as Hamlet put it: "" I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?"
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Date: 2013-05-19 02:57 pm (UTC)And I don't where you get the idea that I consider my own sins "mysteriously above reproach." Quite the contrary. Let me quote Shakespeare again:
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That in the course of justice none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer, doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy."
Or, as Hamlet put it: "" I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?"