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Merold Westphal: Atheism for Lent

Socrates in the City

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The Ethics of Christianity

The ethic of Christianity, what's at the ethical core? There's a lot of ways we could talk about it. The Sermon on the Mount is not a bad place to start. Do I want to be a part of a community that calls them evil in order that we can bask in our goodness? That might be a different story. And my own view, and I don't know that there's either philosophical or biblical warrant for it in any knockdown sense, is that none of us are ever coherent. Our motives are always mixed. There's always a little of this and a little of that."

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