"An it harm none, do what ye will"
---the Wiccan Rede
"Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law."
(Romans 13:10)
How is the Wiccan Rede any less moral?
How is it lacking?
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How is it lacking?
Post #1"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."
---Alan Watts
---Alan Watts
Re: How is it lacking?
Post #2[Replying to Athetotheist in post #1]
The terms are never alone, but they are contingent on the context. The context of those words of Paul, that is, the context of the word "love" is contingent on the ideas of love to God, and love of God, and love towards the neighbour. The greek term of Paul is ἡ ἀγάπη. That term is often used in the expression of the love to God. And that love is also inseparable from the love to the neigbour, as the commandments of the Decalogue refer to both God and to the neigbour.
In that regard, you can see that the term "love" is not simply any kind of love, so love not in some kind of sensual sense, or even only moral alone, but has the higher spiritually connotations.
One of the connotations is clear, because Paul says that the love does not do any harm to the neigbour, harm in greek here is κακός, which means "evil".
So, love does not do any evil. But the evil is not something merely subjective, or civil or moral alone, but it is the complex of it beginning with how the evil is defined in accordance with the Word, thus, has reference to the commandments, which say what are the evils, which are to be shunned.
Thus, the above idea of love is connected with the idea of love to God and to the neigbour, and with avoidance of everything evil that is specified in the ten commandments.
Now, the phrase of Paul speaks about the neighbour, but that is also not the occasional term, but it is also deeply rooted in the terminology of the Sacred Scripture, and that idea has to do not only with the neigbour, but even the Lord Himself as the neigbour in the highest degree. Thus, love does not do anything evil to anyone, including God Himself, thus does not break the commandments, and it actually, as to the first of love, consists in not doing the evils outlined in the Commandments.
So, as you see, the difference of this term and the related actions between any other moral teachings is infinite, for one is related to the Infinite Divine Truth, and the other relates only to the one dimension of the human activity, not even looking to the eternal life, but only to the external life in this world.
The terms are never alone, but they are contingent on the context. The context of those words of Paul, that is, the context of the word "love" is contingent on the ideas of love to God, and love of God, and love towards the neighbour. The greek term of Paul is ἡ ἀγάπη. That term is often used in the expression of the love to God. And that love is also inseparable from the love to the neigbour, as the commandments of the Decalogue refer to both God and to the neigbour.
In that regard, you can see that the term "love" is not simply any kind of love, so love not in some kind of sensual sense, or even only moral alone, but has the higher spiritually connotations.
One of the connotations is clear, because Paul says that the love does not do any harm to the neigbour, harm in greek here is κακός, which means "evil".
So, love does not do any evil. But the evil is not something merely subjective, or civil or moral alone, but it is the complex of it beginning with how the evil is defined in accordance with the Word, thus, has reference to the commandments, which say what are the evils, which are to be shunned.
Thus, the above idea of love is connected with the idea of love to God and to the neigbour, and with avoidance of everything evil that is specified in the ten commandments.
Now, the phrase of Paul speaks about the neighbour, but that is also not the occasional term, but it is also deeply rooted in the terminology of the Sacred Scripture, and that idea has to do not only with the neigbour, but even the Lord Himself as the neigbour in the highest degree. Thus, love does not do anything evil to anyone, including God Himself, thus does not break the commandments, and it actually, as to the first of love, consists in not doing the evils outlined in the Commandments.
So, as you see, the difference of this term and the related actions between any other moral teachings is infinite, for one is related to the Infinite Divine Truth, and the other relates only to the one dimension of the human activity, not even looking to the eternal life, but only to the external life in this world.
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Re: How is it lacking?
Post #3[Replying to Consocius in post #2]
But Wiccans regard this world as sacred and spiritual and hold that temporal actions have spiritual consequences.So, as you see, the difference of this term and the related actions between any other moral teachings is infinite, for one is related to the Infinite Divine Truth, and the other relates only to the one dimension of the human activity, not even looking to the eternal life, but only to the external life in this world.
"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."
---Alan Watts
---Alan Watts
