During the Seventh Crusade, led by St. Louis, Yves le Breton reported how he once encountered an old woman who wandered down the street with a dish full of fire [In the Islamic version, it's a torch] in her right hand and a bowl full of water in her left hand. Asked why she carried the two bowls, she answered that with the fire she would burn up Paradise until nothing remained of it, and with the water she would put out the fires of Hell until nothing remained of them: ''Because I want no one to do good in order to receive the reward of Paradise, or from fear of Hell; but solely out of love for God.''
Today, this properly Christian ethical stance survives mostly in atheism.
http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Politics/atheism.htm
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