Description - Issues raised
This question raised issues such as the differing standards of morality between different worldviews and the actions of practioners with their worldviews in operation may result in drug abuse, suicide and other problems.
Worldview Outline
Christian Theism
Morality is based on God’s standards, revealed to human beings through oral transmission and the bible.
Naturalism
Morality in Naturalism was initially primarily Christian ethics.
Eastern Pantheistic Monism
Karma in Eastern Pantheistic Monism is the concept of reaping and sowing; there is no escape of consequences even through death. Karma demands that the soul returns to right what is wrong. Ancient scriptures reveal morality. Sire suggested that morality is incoherent aspect of Eastern Pantheistic Monism, because of the suggestion that there is some better than the others.
New Age
New Ageism proposes that when one realise that he or she is god, he or she no longer have to be concerned about good and evil. However, Sire has also illustrated inconsistencies where practioners indicated distinctions between better and lesser states.
Personal position – core components of Christian Worldview relating to formation & transformation of Australian Society
I find it disturbing to have blurry lines of morality. The heart is deceitful above all things (Jer 17:9), without an external guide such as biblical God, who is extremely and ultimately pure and good, what stops a person from doing harm to self and others is reduced to the whims and fancies of the heart and perhaps the weightage of benefits of keeping the other person alive in relation to self… That to me is an extremely scary thought.
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