Reducing Religion to Ethics

Reducing Religion to Ethics by MSW.  MGB: Morality says an awful lot about one's theology.  If one believes that God is an ogre, one will have a morality that is based on prohibitions rather than on charity.  On the other had, if one has a theology where morality is a gift from God to man to help people live fully human lives, than morality will be based on our human nature, not on some unattainable divine ideal.  To use the modern words of therapy, Weigel's God seems a bit codependent.  In truth, Jesus is gentle and humble of heart.  His yoke is easy and his burden light.  Under such a morality, no one's sexuality is disordered just because the Curia can't see fit to admit error and accept gay marriage and contraception.  There is nothing wrong with passion and pleasure in the marital relationship - regardless of what our sexually immature pastors say.  As for the creed, the reason it exists is because none of it can be demonstrated in the world - it is purely about what we agree to as common belief - however we are in no way qualified to have an opinion on what is really true about the nature of God.  Justice and charity must also be sourced in a sharing of God's love, not in something we are doing because God cannot.  The truth is that we cannot be just or charitable without God's aid.  It is just too hard otherwise.