Immoral Christianity - What I Learned In A Chatroom
It’s a commonly held moral principle among atheists that if you do something wrong you should do something right to try and compensate. Christians prefer to apologize to god and then lay back while the effects of their actions ricochet around the world.
If I have a half an hour to spare my worst side comes out. Remember where in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” Ford Prefect explains “teasers” to Arthur Dent?
“A teaser?”
“Yeah.”
“Er, what is …”
“A teaser? Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets which haven’t made interstellar contact yet and buzz them.”
“Buzz them?” Arthur began to feel that Ford was enjoying making life difficult for him.
“Yeah”, said Ford, “they buzz them. They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor soul whom no one’s ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennae on their heads and making beep beep noises. Rather childish really.” Ford leant back on the mattress with his hands behind his head and looked infuriatingly pleased with himself.
….well that’s what I do. On Christian Chat rooms. It is such fun and extremely enlightening.
Last week for example I was chatting with a born again drug dealer. The guy had peddled crack cocaine and crystal, fathered three children that he’d abandoned and then found god. He was now a reformed character.
I asked him what he’s done to put right all the things he’d done that had hurt people and his reply was…
“What do you mean? “Put things right.”"
I explained that since he’s abandoned his kids perhaps he should try and help them and their mothers. Maybe he could put part of his income into a charity that supported recovering addicts. That sort of thing.
His reply was that he didn’t need to do anything. His sins were forgiven and the slate had been wiped clean.
Then in came responses from all the other people in the room. They all agreed that once you’d been born again there was no need to do anything else. You don’t have to give back the money you stole, apologize to the families you ruined, hand yourself over to the law for the crimes you committed. You’d been forgiven and that was the end of the matter.
There you have it. The core immorality of Christianity.
These Christians had a vague dismissive approach to law. An un-American attitude that you should be free of any consequences of your actions once you’d said you were sorry for them.
Should this type of thinking actually come to dominate the processes of our country we can just forget about the courts. Just swear on the Bible that you’re sorry and there’s nothing more to worry about.
Tags: Christianity, Faith, Morals, Religion