STOP JUDGING OTHERS BY YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR GOD!
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Stop boxing me in, and presuming your interpretation of a theological question is correct. God is a personal matter
I don't and haven't. However, a grave and serious Judgement has be made against me by another. It is an extremely serious charge, serious enough that I am compelled to respond to my accuser.
CCs ethics are actually evil.
To to declare someone's ethical framework as evil is about as dire an accusation as one can level. It's a spiritual charge the declaration that their morality is false.
In the face of such an attack it is important to clearly state what the foundations of my ethics are and I am entitled to demand the same of my accuser.
The foundation of my ethics can be traced to two core principles.
Matthew 22:36-40
"Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."From this comes my belief on how we should treat women.
We are required to love our neighbor as ourselves even when they are very different at a biological level. This means treating women as you would have wanted to be treated if you had been born female instead of male with all the difference that come with that. It means putting yourself in the place of others and truly acting with a mind to not just your interests but theirs.
I am of the opinion that Jesus is telling us to be superrational but in a much deeper and fundamental way. Superrationality itself is simply an attempt to formalize that wisdom with only partial success.
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Superrationality and the Infinite Yes a female brain will always be different then a male brain. That does not make it worth less just different better at some things and worse at some things. All women are still children of God and deserving the respect that comes with that as are all Men. A human brain will similarly be different then an AI brain that will surely come along someday or the brain of an extraterrestrial if we ever encounter something along those lines.
The wisdom above tells us how to behave in regards to all of these scenarios.
That at any rate is my truth.
Yes there are very valid issues raised by those who are concerned about the disruption of traditional gender roles and the harmful effects that result from this. These are difficult problems that do not have simple solutions. However, the existence of these problems does not mean we are exempt from higher ethical responsibilities. Our challenge as men is to work towards finding solutions to these problems while simultaneously holding ourselves to a moral code in an era where both morality and God are widely ignored and mocked. This is no easy task but it is the burden of men to bear it.
We create and destroy with words, perhaps more so than we do with our hands -
Ephesians 4:29 