Comment by pfannkuchen
4 days ago
Did I say it was?
Christian morality includes “don’t be selfish” as a high ranking rule.
Being selfish is against the religion, therefore selfish Christians are not implementing Christianity properly, or in other words they are being “bad Christians”.
I don’t think of morality as one thing, I’m not claiming Christians or well functioning Christians are “more moral” because that is a nonsensical framing. It would be like saying that frogs are “more animal” than goats. No, they are just different animals.
> Being selfish is against the religion, therefore selfish Christians are not implementing Christianity properly, or in other words they are being “bad Christians”.
So is a Christian also allowed to own a profitable business? Isn't that pretty selfish, instead of making only the minimum and using the rest to help the needy?
Or is a profitable business OK, but raising prices by more than inflation isn't?
Or can a Christian run a factory that dumps runoff straight into a river?
"Being selfish" is itself poorly defined. The Bible is not much use - when it's not contradicting itself, it's vague.
Christian morality is not one single thing, hence my "no true Scotsman" comment.
People who self identify as Christians these days violate a huge number of rules that didn’t used to be violated frequently when Christianity was dominant.
So yes, it could be the case that the flavor of selfishness we are discussing is on the border and would be debatable. But if the sort of people you are referring to are the same sort of people I’m thinking of, I don’t think most Christians from say 1850 would accept them as Christians. The social bar for calling oneself Christian in current year is practically nonexistent. This is different from no true Scotsman.