http://jtan.org.uk/blog/?p=142

I think I agree with a lot of your post, but I would personally find it a bit creepy, and unhappy-making, if someone helped me out in the name of chalking up points (however unselfishly) on some cosmic moral scoreboard rather than because anything about me mattered. I mean, I recognise this is caricaturing it a bit, since the two (caring about cosmic moral order + caring about people you help) are not exactly mutually exclusive, and I suppose the idea is precisely that the obedience to religious dictate and the compassion are meant to be deeply interlinked… but nonetheless, for those of us who see compassion as something freestanding, that’s how the “this is FOR Jesus” (rather than, for instance, this is “inspired by” Jesus) claim comes across.

Also, for me at any rate, I actually prefer the idea of “goodness because it’s good”, not because it ties in with some command, and it’s in fact precisely this that makes me resolutely unable to cope with Christianity in its totality even if many threads in its ethics resonate with me. I just cannot accept that, for instance, it would be part of some greater plan that my loved ones should be banished to Hell for failing to believe, and if I were a Christian I should then be perfectly equanimous and happy with that, indeed perhaps taste the delights of a Heavenly afterlife myself regardless of their eternal punishment. It’s not an answer, for me, that God encompasses everything, including everything that I value about them – that feels demeaning to them and their particularity. (Same reason I would say no to the Nozickian experience machine.)

Good to see this blog tackling the hard hitting issues again. I probably would have just posted this.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1787364/