This morning our media squad was brain storming about what we thought a good society should be based on. One of the things we decided was that our laws should be (loosely) based on good morals. And good morals, we decided, were Christian morals. Biblical morals.
This, of course, isn't to exclude other religions or beliefs from the system. We noticed that the laws we have now are based on Christian morals. For instance, most of us would agree that people should go around killing other people, or sleeping with other people's spouses. These are Biblical principals that are not unique to the Christian religion. Most societies seem to agree that laws should forbid these types of things, no matter if the ideas came from the Bible or not. The point is, it is things like these that we consider to fall under the "good morals" category. And since the word "good" is debatable, we put it under Biblical morals.
But this isn't to say that every single law should be based on whether Christians believe it is right or wrong. For instance, I would have to say that most Christians view things like abortion, (or as Andrew Rudd mentioned this morning) smoking weed and prostitution as immoral. But some would argue that these things should be legal just the same. Not because making it legal would be saying, "Yes this is good, go ahead and do it," but because these things will go on whether they are legal or not. And if they are legal, then we (the people, the government...whomever) are better able to regulate, keep it under control and if at all possible, find any beneficial sides.
Over all, though, I think that a society that is based on Christian morals (along with other qualities of course) is a good society.
~Nadia
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