{"id":8405,"date":"2014-05-31T13:50:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T17:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8405"},"modified":"2014-05-31T13:50:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T17:50:41","slug":"morality-as-worship-pascal-emmanuel-gobry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/05\/morality-as-worship-pascal-emmanuel-gobry.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Morality as Worship&#8221;: Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><blockquote><p>Why should Christians act morally?<\/p>\n<p>Because if they do they will go to Heaven and if they don\u2019t they will go to Hell? Surely that can\u2019t be the answer. For as the New Atheists\u00a0<em>rightly<\/em> point out, a morality based on self-interest is no morality at all.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that the Biblical answer is that God demands\u00a0<em>worship<\/em> and that acting morally is a form of\u00a0<em>worship<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>lots of good stuff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/inebriateme\/2014\/05\/morality-as-worship\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why should Christians act morally? Because if they do they will go to Heaven and if they don\u2019t they will go to Hell? Surely that can\u2019t be the answer. For as the New Atheists\u00a0rightly point out, a morality based on self-interest is no morality at all. 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