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I believe that absolute Truth and Righteousness exists.
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I believe that absolute Truth and Righteousness exists.
But that it often gets coloured with subjective truth and needing to always be right!
The path of the spiritual journeyer is to start in the middle, and work their way upwards.
Secular humanism is about going the other way, to where one can actually start believing that morality is totally defined by their whims and that the rest of existence need to suck it up and accept this. Humanity becomes fragmented into un-associated islands of self each trying to write their own version of morality to just their own greater glory.
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Related questions might be: What is the place of individual, group, societal, and global morality? Can a moral system function without real, terrestrial consequences? To what degree does adherence to a morality have to be consensual? Is it a naive fantasy to think that government can not or should not reflect morality? Is morality just another form of rationalization?
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If Christianity is the source of morality, then it is without a doubt entirely relative.
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"In its original literal sense, "moral relativism" is simply moral complexity. That is, anyone who agrees that stealing a loaf of bread to feed one's children is not the moral equivalent of, say, shoplifting a dress for the fun of it, is a relativist of sorts. But in recent years, conservatives bent on reinstating an essentially religious vocabulary of absolute good and evil as the only legitimate framework for discussing social values have redefined "relative" as "arbitrary." That conflation has been reinforced by social theorists and advocates of identity politics who argue that there is no universal morality, only the value systems of particular cultures and power structures." ~ Ellen Willis
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I've never had subjective morality explained to me in a way that got it beyond being a self-contradicting statement -- so I fall on the side of absolute morality.
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“Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.”
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