Ethics
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The storm predicted is here. Hard to see the road from the house.
So why ethics.?
What's ethics? Well it's morals, principles, rules of living. It is in simple terms - doing the right thing. Now what is the right thing. A jihadist thinks that the right thing is to blow oneself up in pursuit of the cause in order to achieve a high place in "heaven".
A good christian (should that be capatialized?) follows the ten commandments and the "golden rule". Do unto others, etc. But puzzlingly ( if that is a word) those who follow Mohamed (jihadists) believe that Jesus (aka the Christ - ergo Christians) was a prophet like Mohamed. So where did the "golden rule" go for those who folllow Islam?
Turn the other cheek? For how long? Again and again and again?
Or react? React for what? Earthly power and control? Christians used to believe (perhaps still do) that martyrdom was an instant, guaranteed get into heaven card. From the earliest martyrs, e.g. Stephen who was stoned (in the rocks on head style) down to and including those in the middle ages who died in Crusades in order to promote the faith, the highest order of heaven awaited them.
So where is "love one another". Love thy enemies. Do good to those who hate you.
Perhaps "Ethics" is a worldly concern and not a religious concern???
"And all we are saying, is give peace a chance"
Give love a chance. Do good to those who harm you. Forgive, forget and move on.
Is the world doomed to react with anger or is there a way to rise above the feeling that we must get even. Yes, some deranged (?) individuals did a horrible thing on 9/11. Yes loved ones were lost. So we, a supposedly christian nation react by ?"Turning the other cheek"...No...Hell no... they won't get away with that...whoever they are. So we bomb Afghanistan, we bomb Iraq. We kill. We (those who have power in the Western World) bomb and maim and hurt in the name of a political system. They wouldn't do this if they had a system like ours???? Which only hurts people economically???
Genug. Ver zulatz lacht lacht am besten.
The storm predicted is here. Hard to see the road from the house.
So why ethics.?
What's ethics? Well it's morals, principles, rules of living. It is in simple terms - doing the right thing. Now what is the right thing. A jihadist thinks that the right thing is to blow oneself up in pursuit of the cause in order to achieve a high place in "heaven".
A good christian (should that be capatialized?) follows the ten commandments and the "golden rule". Do unto others, etc. But puzzlingly ( if that is a word) those who follow Mohamed (jihadists) believe that Jesus (aka the Christ - ergo Christians) was a prophet like Mohamed. So where did the "golden rule" go for those who folllow Islam?
Turn the other cheek? For how long? Again and again and again?
Or react? React for what? Earthly power and control? Christians used to believe (perhaps still do) that martyrdom was an instant, guaranteed get into heaven card. From the earliest martyrs, e.g. Stephen who was stoned (in the rocks on head style) down to and including those in the middle ages who died in Crusades in order to promote the faith, the highest order of heaven awaited them.
So where is "love one another". Love thy enemies. Do good to those who hate you.
Perhaps "Ethics" is a worldly concern and not a religious concern???
"And all we are saying, is give peace a chance"
Give love a chance. Do good to those who harm you. Forgive, forget and move on.
Is the world doomed to react with anger or is there a way to rise above the feeling that we must get even. Yes, some deranged (?) individuals did a horrible thing on 9/11. Yes loved ones were lost. So we, a supposedly christian nation react by ?"Turning the other cheek"...No...Hell no... they won't get away with that...whoever they are. So we bomb Afghanistan, we bomb Iraq. We kill. We (those who have power in the Western World) bomb and maim and hurt in the name of a political system. They wouldn't do this if they had a system like ours???? Which only hurts people economically???
Genug. Ver zulatz lacht lacht am besten.
posted by Oldguy | 1:20 pm
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