Should Christians Impose Their Moral Standards on Society?
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Today’s challenge is a common complaint. Because Christians have moral concerns with homosexual behavior, it is alleged that they shouldn’t be allowed to impose their standards on the rest of society.
There are two separate, but related, implications to this challenge. The first is that it’s wrong to impose any moral rules on society. The second is that it’s wrong for Christians to impose their morality.
The first implication is a common myth that needs to be debunked. It’s perfectly acceptable to legislate morality. When you think about it, morals are the only thing you can legislate. For example, we have laws against stealing for one reason: it’s immoral to take someone’s property. So, we take that moral rule and establish it in law.
The same is true for laws against murder. The reason they exist is because we think it’s immoral to kill an innocent human being. So, we take that moral rule and make it against the law to break it. By legislating that rule, we are legislating morality.
In fact, it’s the moral rule that legitimizes the law’s power to limit freedom. Without a moral grounding, laws would be unjust. They would be the raw use of power to get what someone wants, not to do what’s right. That’s called tyranny.
Therefore, all laws reflect a moral viewpoint. The only question is whose morals will be legislated and which viewpoint will be advanced…
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Stand to Reason Blog: Should Christians Impose Their Moral Standards on Society?
As we go down the road of life we’er going to conduct ourselves by some moral standard(it is impossible to get around it),what we have to decide is “what” that standard is going to be.There are many competing standards of which Christianity is one of them,so you must choose,to say no to Christianity is to say yes to another,the choice if your’s so choose wisely!We have freedoms in this nation but we must choose which moral standard that will govern those rights and freedoms be it the Government(Liberalism or Conservatism),secularism,Islamic,Judaism or Christianity.The only way to escape this deli ma is to be DEAD!
I know! Let’s just not allow the government to impose rules upon behavior in which there is no victim, eh? Pretty easy. If you want to impose additional rules upon yourself, by all means! It is, after all, a free country.
You can’t legislate morality, sorry but you can’t , morality is an issue of the heart. What you can do is legislate against immoral behavior, there is a big difference, and that is what laws against murder and rape and the like are all about . They are laws against immoral behavior, not laws that legislate morality. You may call this silly semantics, but if you understand that law is not for the purpose to make people moral , but to guard against immoral behavior that hurts others, it might give you a different view of some issues.
No one can impose morality on the basis of religion. Your religion is your own personal relationship with your personal imaginary friend, and it’s not of anybody else’s concern. You could, at best, suggest a different morality because you think it would lead society to the best well being for all, and away from the worst suffering for all based on rational logic reasons that we all, religious or irreligious, can relate to.