do you believe christians are less moral than the common man?

Question

I sure do i want to see if anyone agrees with me.

Answer 1

Yes: as a rule Christians are less moral than the average non-Christian person. Absolutely. Their morals are based on something other than morality per se.

Answer 2

Would you agree that each person has different viewpoints on what is right or wrong?

So, when you say a Christian is less moral than the common man, could it be because what you see as right and wrong is different than their opinion of right and wrong?

Yes, there are those that are hypocrites and they make the rest of the Christians look bad. But a lot of Christians do have integrity and do have a strong sense of morals.

So, when you say a person is less moral than the common man, it could very well be that your perception of right and wrong is just different than theirs.

Answer 3

Interesting question, and it brings up important distinctions between morality and ethics.

Morality is being in accord with standards of right or good conduct as defined by a religion, a culture, or a spiritual discipline.

Ethics, on the other hand, is a philosophical idea invented by early Greek philosophers that uses reason to determine what is right and wrong (without divine authority)


The biggest violation of Christian morality that I have seen Christians indulge in is the "It's for the greater good" kind of thing. this is often used as a justification for bad behavior on the part of Christians. Basically, I have known Christians to justify any violation of their own moral codes as being OK (in a "larger" sense) if that results in someone being converted...or results in Christianity retaining its power base.

Also, there are conflicts of morality within the bible itself, and That's GOT to be difficult to reconcile. Many Christians I know don't even try to reconcile the different examples of right or good behavior in the bible, they just use whichever one justifies what they want to do at the time.

Certainly not all Christians do this, I'd never say that.

OK, then there is the problem of conflict between religious morality and cultural morality. It is in this conflict that fundamentalism arises in any religion. When the cultural morality moves very far from someones religious morality, the backlash is a rigid and legalistic interpretation of the moral code of the religion. That, of itself, is not a problem in societies, but the drive to change cultural morality to fit this rigid (and backwards-looking) religious morality is disastrous.

When cultural morality has few absolutes, fundamentalism rears its ugly head - it is essentially a reaction to the modernization of a society, a reaction of those for whom uncertainty is VERY uncomfortable, people for whom the idea of individual evaluations of what is right and wrong (ethics, in fact) is untenable.

I know that my view is unconventional, but that's because Wiccan morality is unconventional. By my understanding of Wiccan ethics and morality, if one must do harm (or if one simply chooses to do harm) the thing that MUST happen is to take responsibility for that - the action was yours, the choice was yours, you are the author of your own behavior, and you must acknowledge that and deal with the consequences like an adult.

There is no being washed clean of your harmful actions. But there is no damnation for them, either. There are simply consequences.

Answer 4

I believe Christians are just as moral, though I sometimes feel that Christian leaders think they get a Get Out of Hell free card by the way they teach how to treat/condemn others.

Answer 5

I wouldn't say less moral. I would say more conflicted.

You have to have a problem with knowing morality if your holy book says that slavery is ok in one sentence and then says it is bad in another and doesn't tell you whether or not is ok to steal food to give to someone dying of starvation.

Answer 6

All the Christians I know are very moralistic people. The immoral people I know are the pagans I used to hang out with. And concidering one stole $1200 dollars from me in two weeks time, two others cheated on their spouses, and another won't do a thing without a reward, I think I'll stick to the Christians, thank you

Answer 7

No, nor do I believe that they are any more so. The vast majority of Christians are just like everyone else. They have hopes and dreams, they laugh, they cry, and they suffer lapses in judgment just as the rest of us do. Maybe, instead of looking at a person's beliefs, you should try looking at the person.

Answer 8

Common man what do you mean by common? Aren't many Christians common men. Do you mean by common ignorant? I don't believe you posed a fair question that anyone can honestly answer. God bless kisses Betty.

Answer 9

Yes i agree that alot are from what i have seen on this site. They seem a very angry bunch too.

Answer 10

I'm a Christian. I believe that all people are sinful (immoral). Yet Christians are to try to achieve righteousness. As far as intolerance...if you believe that smoking causes cancer, you want to tell people, right ? We believe that sin causes death (eternal death) and we want to tell people, is that intolerance?