thatoliver comments on Fake Morality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thatoliver 06 June 2012 10:37:42PM 1 point [-]

Certainly in the British charismatic mainstream, of which one of my parents is a member, the accepted notion is that the only decision which has any bearing on your eventual judgement is whether or not you "accept Jesus as your saviour".

I get the feeling that this is an even less useful philosophy than the "bad folks go to hell" line, as God -in his infinite wisdom- has essentially cancelled himself out. However, the result is that Christians who accept this tend to be more genuinely altruistic than those who still believe the celestial carrot-and-stick are in play, because they at least follow their own moral conscience rather than a set of fixed laws.