What Does Christianity Teach Morality

Christianity and Morality: Does Christianity teach morality?

Things to consider
Have you ever wondered where your sense of right and wrong come from? One might be quick to say that they get it from their parents. This is easy enough, but where did they get it and their parents as well onto the far reaches of the past? There are two basic camps that make explanations of this question. One is of the religious belief that human were endowed by the creator with morals of right and wrong and the other of the secular or non-religious person. The non-religious person, for the sake of writing, I will call by a common title, Atheist. The Atheist does not believe in a creator or anything else that is supernatural. The Atheist is more scientific in
One could write volumes on the sheer number of them and the various nuances. Specifically, Christianity does not serve well to dictate what is and is not moral for us to do or not do. Examples can be found in all faiths that can demonstrate this claim. No amount of special interpretation can change the clear and concise meaning of such examples. Just to give some reference to this claim, see F.R Zindler’s take on the topic from his work, Morality Does Not Require Religious Belief, (2005)

So, too, with the transmission of moral behavior. If we are to live lives which are as complex socially as jet airplanes are complex technologically, we need something more than the Ten Commandments. We cannot base our moral code upon arbitrary and capricious fiats reported to us by persons claiming to be privy to the intentions of the denizens of Sinai or Olympus. Our ethics can be based neither upon fictions concerning the nature of mankind nor upon fake reports concerning the desire of the deities. Our ethics must be firmly planted in the soil of scientific self-knowledge. They must be improvable and
-If invading, converting or killing was not enough, Christians were also content to kill their own for crimes against god. The Thirty Years War in Western Europe from 1618-1648, claimed the lives of at least one million people via disease, famine, and an inquisition that was also paired with witch burnings.
-The bombing of the Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City was Christian involved. A Christian white supremacist group was responsible for the death of 168 people and the injury of 800 people.
-The use of the bible was a justification for slavery and was well established in the southern slave states. Southern slave owners routinely used the Christian faith to justify the keeping a treatment of slaves. On this note, it is a wonder that black people today don’t realize this and turn away from Christianity. This is not an assertion made out of thin air. The actor and comedian Chris Rock has been quoted during interviews stating as much.

Science and nature based philosophe are approaches based in reality and are far better suited to teach morals than is