In the author's own words - "We like to think it's easy to know right from wrong. But in the heat of real-world moral decisions, things often arise to cloud our minds. Emotions, desires, talk radio. Perhaps it would be less difficult if we had better contemporary role models. After all, it may do to choose a car or hairstyle based on celebrity endorsements, but can you imagine the chaos if we modeled our everyday actions on them? Not even Jerry Springer could endure it. So we are told to consider, 'What would Jesus do?' But ...
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In the author's own words - "We like to think it's easy to know right from wrong. But in the heat of real-world moral decisions, things often arise to cloud our minds. Emotions, desires, talk radio. Perhaps it would be less difficult if we had better contemporary role models. After all, it may do to choose a car or hairstyle based on celebrity endorsements, but can you imagine the chaos if we modeled our everyday actions on them? Not even Jerry Springer could endure it. So we are told to consider, 'What would Jesus do?' But who the hell knows what he would do? If, on the other hand, we were to ponder, 'What would Satan do?' ah, now were talking. Answers start raining down like frogs in Egypt in that movie with Yul Brynner and Charlton Heston. But how is that any more useful than asking what celebrities would do? A compass that always points south can help you find your way as surely as one that points the other way. Likewise, a moral compass that always points to the wrong pole can be just as useful.
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