There is a heated debate currently going on in India regarding the rights of women.
India’s Daughter, a highly controversial film, in which Leslie interviewed rapists to find out the thoughts of the men, may be banned in India.
You can see how the rapists and the lawyers justify the rape for reasons such as ‘Women are harmless domestic animals’, or ‘She is on the streets after 8:30 therefore she is a bad woman so I can rape her’.
In India, a baby boy is given a full glass of milk while a baby girl is only given half a glass of milk.
Society’s mindset need to change.
A good moral principle to follow is:
Setient beings should not suffer.
This can be derived from the Golden Rule:
Do to others what you would want them to do to you.
Matthew 7:12 New International Version (NIV)
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
If you do not want suffering to yourself, please do not cause suffering to other people.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
All Christians need to go for a course in Ethics and Integrity.
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Don’t think that something is right just because you “feel” it is right.
If you think just by reading the bible you have a complete understanding of Ethics and Morality, you are wrong.
Hitler read the bible too, and he sure used it effectively in his propaganda, resulting in the Western Holocaust, the persecution of millions of Jews, Homosexuals, Disabled People etc.
Ethical principles are derived from philosophical analysis, from fundamental universal axioms.
Some related readings for Ethical Christianity:
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Charles Camosy
For Love Of Animals
Christian Ethics, Consistent Action
Everything should be made as simple as possible, if not simpler.
There should only be just Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.
Wikipedia does not need Singapore Chinese, China Chinese, Chinese Taiwan Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese, Macau Chinese, Malaysia Chinese, and American Chinese.
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