Originally Posted By: KeithS
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According to Christian theology, God is love.


Exactly the foundation upon which Joseph Fletcher based his arguments of contextual ethics. He was roundly condemned by fundamentalists, and although he started his professional life as an Episcopal priest, his reasoning eventually brought him to the conclusion that the biblical god does not exist. If god is love, then right and wrong are determined by what is the loving thing to do in all cases. As Jesus told the man who asked what the greatest law was, the answer was LOVE god and LOVE your neighbor. On this hang the whole law.


my point wasn't to make a dissertaion on faith as much as to point out that those who voice objections to Christian theology are usually objecting to a misunderstanding of it. Rarely do I think the same people would object to an accurate understanding of the topic in discussion.