THE JUDGEMENT IS NOT JUST THEOLOGY | 2006-04-22
A German once said to other Aryans, "If you said the things to other people that you say to yourself, you would be a sadist."
Those of us who have a conscience are very cruel to ourselves.
One commenter says he feels guilty about nothing in his life and he is not a sociopath. He is an enormous exception.
I do not need the Bible to stand before Judgement all the time. To me, this is Aryan morality. It is a cruel master.
I have never considered heaven-and-hell Christianity to be Christian "morality." What Christianity says is that if you are good you will be rewarded forever. If you do evil you will be tortured eternally.
This is religion, but it is certainly not morality.
I wonder if a person who is not bound to morality regardless of reward or punishment can be saved when the real Judgement Day comes?
Action based entirely on punishment and reward is not yet morality, but many a person has been frrightened into acting morally by a fear of Hell. But as he thinks in terms of morality year after year, his conscience will develop.
CS Lewis says, "If you are not yet sure the Faith is true, pretend as if it WERE true"
A dog who obeys because he will be whipped if he doesn't is obedient, but he is NOT moral.
In the movie "A Man for All Seasons," a Duke who was a friend of Thomas More urged him to say he was for Henry VIII's divorce even if he didn't believe it was right.
He said, "Say it, Thomas,and I will stand beside you."
Moore answered, "And when we both face the Judgement, and God says you will go to heaven because you endorsed the divorce because you believed it was right, and God says says I am damned because I endorsed it though I believed it was wrong, will you THEN stand beside me and walk into the Pit of Hell with me?"
I think this is profoundly true.
The only difference is that I don't need the Pit of Hell to make me do what is right.
My own conscience, my Aryan conscience, is all the punishment I need to make immorality painful.