[Theophilus]

Morality doesn’t bind everyone together. The only thing that does that is humanness and the logic...

Ahhhhh

"humaneness"

- the new morality. A human would have to be a god to be humane all the time. But then there's the rub. If a human is a god, then she does not necessarily have to be humane if she doesn't want to, hence the erstwhile baby becomes the invading non-human disease that must be driven from the sacrosanct body, Mt Olympus if you will, when hospitality does not suit the god.

Law: morality that is dictated, legislated, negotiated or handed down by an Almighty God carried by tradition or statute enforced by magistrates, clerics, officers, citizens and even tyrants, God forbid, are what binds people together and protects the innocent from inhumane behavior.

[Cathryn Crawford]

You changed my word. Mine was human-ness, while yours was humane-ness.

There a difference.

[Romulus]

Morality doesn’t bind everyone together

But she's right (or half-right), and I'd have thought anyone with a Greek Christian handle would have been specially sensitive to this point. When we're bound together with God, morality becomes irrelevant, for the very reason that God isn't moral. God isn't law-abiding. God just IS, and his essence is both Truth (by virtue of his transcendant existence) and Love (by virtue of revelation, including the revelation implicit in creation's very existence). Salvation that consists of communion with God is not an ethical achievement, but existential -- a mode of being, not acting. Men are meant to be bound to God as sons, not slaves, and therefore in love, and not law.