#commandments

#Aquinas: "It is a great thing to do #miracles, but it is a greater thing to live virtuously." Rather than overindulging in commentaries on the #commandments or threats & fear to motivate healthy actions, he discusses the #Beatitudes, containing "the whole perfection of our life." bit.ly/4qqZFGo

Is something #moral because God commands it, or does God command some things because they are moral? If the former is true, and God had no reason for his #commandments, why should we take his whims seriously? If God commanded you to torture and kill a child, would that make it right? “He would never do that!” you might object. But that flicks us onto the second horn of the dilemma. If God does have good reasons for his commandments, why don’t we appeal to those reasons directly and skip the middleman?
―Steven Pinker

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