By advancing high moral ideals, Christianity has always made itself a target for criticism on grounds of hypocrisy. After all, we are dealing with a religion that makes three hard-and-fast claims concerning morality: moral rules are unchanging, people must adhere to them or face judgment, we all fall short of the ideal, which is why we all must depend on the mercy of God. How much easier if the Catholic Church held to more common notions of right and wrong. If the church, for example, claimed that the meaning of morality changes with the times and circumstances, it would be … Continue reading What Moral Rules Bind the State?