"Certainly mouse’s elegant apologetic defense of Christianity is interesting, but is hardly above an apologetic response, which is what I have given." It should be noted that I don't do apologetics. I have no desire to win anyone admiration, or souls to Christianity. I'm not providing you...

Interestingly, there are through out the history of Christianity those who have embodied the virtues you mentioned, but Christian history full of just the opposite. It is stained dark with the blood of those killed in the name of the Prince of Peace, in the name of love and in the name of an all-lo...

And I disagree with you. Fundamentally, morality is personal, as its effect from a Buddhist perspective, is personal. The first person one harms when engaged in immoral conduct, is oneself. But morality isn't 'merely' personal, it also has to do with our treatment of others. And i have a feeling we...

I see this is your first thread, so Hi & welcome to Dhamma Wheel! :anjali: Well, hello to you too. this isn't actually a statement on what morality is, but a statement on where morality comes from, and as that I do agree with it. Actually it is a statement about what morality is. It's claim tha...

Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but intrinsic laws of the cosmos built into the heart of reality. I agree totally with the sentiment but I think it is somewhat confusing ...

Hi modest mouse I suspect the two quotes you presented may actually be pointing, at the apparent level, towards two different things. Certainly Socrates was concerned with 'public' morality or the morality of state. Secondly, from some of the Ancient greek philosophers we can see that another conce...

A friend of mine, and a true scholar of the Pali Canon, has put together an essay of excepts from the Pali Canon which poses an explanation of the fundamental Christian claims from a Buddhist ontology. It's very interesting stuff. He claims that the ontology outlined in the Pali Canon can in fact e...

"If morality is to function as an efficient guide to conduct, it cannot be propounded as a self-justifying scheme but must be embedded in a more comprehensive spiritual system which grounds morality in a transpersonal order. Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical...