Morality-based approaches often fail. As you said, the idea of "bc God said so" just isn't a good operating system to live by. Or said another way, it doesn't provide good guard rails. I prefer wisdom-based approaches. Failing at morality is often nebulous, but failing at wisdom is pretty clear. It's like, hey, I don't want to drive my family (or career or whatever) into the ditch so I should probably use some wisdom here.
100%. Much of morality emerged out of the idea of what was good for the tribe, often from the standpoint of disease prevention. Examples would be which foods to eat or rules around sex. These rules matter less (or not at all) today bc we live in a very different world, assuming the necessary precautions are taken.
Run through most of the scenarios like getting drunk, casual sex, laziness, etc and you can see that none of these are actually harmful under certain circumstances, but can be disastrous to you personally if you overindulge. More importantly if I become a lazy, promiscuous drunk then I'm unlikely to be of much use to the tribe. And I potentially become a burden to everyone else in my tribe.
Ancient people didn't say much about obesity bc it wasn't really even possible 3000 years ago to eat enough calories or to be so sedentary that one could become overweight. Now it's a huge blind spot for Christianity and will likely continue to be so bc it's not in the scriptures.
I could probably write a thousand more words on the topic but I wouldn't be surprised if Jesus drank and had sex, as long as he didn't hurt anyone else. He knew the real danger was the temptation of power.
Eliminate the first four (they are nothing more than methods of perpetuating the myth),The remaining are a pretty fair guide,to live by. Missing is the concept of "doing better for others,than you expect them to do for you" and "don't take yourself,too seriously". The rest I leave to others. It has become much more fluid. It can only seem "awkward",if you decide that you've suddenly been gifted with the ability to read (care about) the thoughts of others and forgetting that one's body is beauty. I revert to who said so? When,Where,Who else heard it Or is it another facet of the Abrahamic Mythos.
Morality-based approaches often fail. As you said, the idea of "bc God said so" just isn't a good operating system to live by. Or said another way, it doesn't provide good guard rails. I prefer wisdom-based approaches. Failing at morality is often nebulous, but failing at wisdom is pretty clear. It's like, hey, I don't want to drive my family (or career or whatever) into the ditch so I should probably use some wisdom here.
Interesting. Would you say that using a wisdom-based approach is more like taking long-term consequences into effect?
100%. Much of morality emerged out of the idea of what was good for the tribe, often from the standpoint of disease prevention. Examples would be which foods to eat or rules around sex. These rules matter less (or not at all) today bc we live in a very different world, assuming the necessary precautions are taken.
Run through most of the scenarios like getting drunk, casual sex, laziness, etc and you can see that none of these are actually harmful under certain circumstances, but can be disastrous to you personally if you overindulge. More importantly if I become a lazy, promiscuous drunk then I'm unlikely to be of much use to the tribe. And I potentially become a burden to everyone else in my tribe.
Ancient people didn't say much about obesity bc it wasn't really even possible 3000 years ago to eat enough calories or to be so sedentary that one could become overweight. Now it's a huge blind spot for Christianity and will likely continue to be so bc it's not in the scriptures.
I could probably write a thousand more words on the topic but I wouldn't be surprised if Jesus drank and had sex, as long as he didn't hurt anyone else. He knew the real danger was the temptation of power.
Eliminate the first four (they are nothing more than methods of perpetuating the myth),The remaining are a pretty fair guide,to live by. Missing is the concept of "doing better for others,than you expect them to do for you" and "don't take yourself,too seriously". The rest I leave to others. It has become much more fluid. It can only seem "awkward",if you decide that you've suddenly been gifted with the ability to read (care about) the thoughts of others and forgetting that one's body is beauty. I revert to who said so? When,Where,Who else heard it Or is it another facet of the Abrahamic Mythos.
I like the idea of not taking yourself to seriously and a pro-public nudity stance. That feels ideologically consistent ;)