Aielyn said:
Yes, it is. Note that I didn't actually say that the morality of most Christians is 1st level. I said that Christian morality is 1st level. It is "do this because god says so". The bible leaves no room for rational consideration, it sets down rules. Now, as I noted, a lot more of them take the form of suggestions than in Judaism, and the set of rules are mostly focused on morality rather than safety, but the point stands. Christian morality says not to murder because god said not to murder. That's 1st level. 5th level would be "do not murder because humans have a right to life" (or similar). |
No it's not.
1st level would be "Do not murder because it's a rule."
God would be irelevent in first level thinking. This is one of those things where you generally need to crack open a textbook rather then go off of a one sentence wikipedia article.
1st level thinking doesn't even have the person involved as a member of society yet. Hence why it's children only.
The bible has rules... (and explains why those rules exist...) sure.
So does every code of laws. Kohlberg's system isn't about laws... but how people react to laws and why.
As for Christian Morality itself... I'd note that Punishments themselves are completely avoidable through Jesus Christ... so I don't even see where you get that it's 1st level from your flawed attempt to apply somethign to something it's not supposed to be applied too.
To have a way to avoid punishment due to outside factors is pure stage 5 reasoning.
