Reply To: You wouldn’t believe it

[Siderite]

I am not bemoaning discussing non-footy on a non-footy sub-forum. My point is in response to BPG bemoaning you not preaching the gospel like there is some need to do so. It irks people and achieves nothing, as can be seen to the responses to the preaching. That is why I mentioned it being a football forum. Not because there’s no need to speak non-footy issues, but questioning the need to act like a missionary when this sub-forum should be about debate, and it’s one of those topics that has been done to death, along with climate change and Palestine, so I don’t really see what more can be gleaned from it. BPG’s demand of you to show the Christian message to others seems pointless and I would suggest any preaching of the gospel message should probably be left elsewhere (though I am not calling for censoring), since everyone has heard it and if they haven’t been swayed by now, they are unlikely to in future.

As for the rest, I have said my piece and don’t want to drag it on too far. All I’ll say is that my point was that BPG’s characterisation of morality as being flawed because I see the issues stemming from rigid ideology from religious to political to nationalist, and those taking such beliefs to an extreme. It wasn’t to argue against people having such a position, it probably is impossible to not have one (certainly politically), but rigid thinking leads to people making decisions that harm others for the ‘good of the cause’. So, no, I won’t agree that God is some necessary marker for morality. Many have used the argument of what God deems moral to commit heinous acts of immorality, all because of rigid thinking.