Sunday, 11 November 2012

Secular values and Christian values

Secular Values

Equality

Happiness

Transparency

Openness

Democracy

Modernise

Human Rights

Freedom

Reason

Seeing is believing

Personal choice

Competition

Empowerment

Humanity is the ultimate authority

Peace of the world

Worldly tolerance

Not to harm others

The Now

Humanity can save itself

The world created itself through big bang and evolution

Humanity can and will find discover how it can live and prosper

Progress

Christian Values

Love God and thy Neighbour

Forgiveness

Compassion

Mercy

Honesty

Integrity

Fidelity in marriage

God is the ultimate authority

Hope

Faith

Peace of Christ

Truth

Kindness

Humility

Meekness

Gentleness

Patience

Christly tolerance

Glory in sufferings

Perseverance

The Eternal

Only through Christ can we be saved

God created the world (and for some in 6 days)

God has ordained worldly order for man to prosper.

God will being judgement on the world and every knee shall bow.

Providence

Political party values

Doing what it takes to stay in power eg supporting same sex marriage

Making 'difficult decisions' eg benefit cuts, public sector cuts, cutting millionaires taxes

Other Values

Fairness

Proportionate

Environmentalism

Contribution to society

Questions or issues

Does democracy of itself, or does contemporary democracy, make no single moral issue clearly black and white. Does this mean it makes it more difficult to clearly distinguish between right and wrong?


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