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Morality Subjective / Objective?
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What underpins your personal morality?
Is it objective or subjective?
Is it objective or subjective?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Nailit - Please please please tell me why you as a devout atheist who believes God Jesus and the bible are all rubbish, spend so much time and energy criticising it all?
It would be just as rewarding to criticise the YellowPages .
Also, your advice please.
Should I stop asking these questions?
They seem to arouse such anger.
It would be just as rewarding to criticise the YellowPages .
Also, your advice please.
Should I stop asking these questions?
They seem to arouse such anger.
I am not going to read through 6 pages of postings so my point has probably been made by someone else. I am of the objective morality camp. There is absolute not relative truth, and absolute not relative morality.
For me as a Christian, God is the source of morality. Only God is good.
If you attempt to create morality without reference to God, you have no fixed point to anchor your ideas. Instead you just have a shifting sand of constantly changing values.
If society today believes paedophilia is morally wrong. What if in 50 years time, 95% of the population think it is fine. Does that make it morally right?
For me as a Christian, God is the source of morality. Only God is good.
If you attempt to create morality without reference to God, you have no fixed point to anchor your ideas. Instead you just have a shifting sand of constantly changing values.
If society today believes paedophilia is morally wrong. What if in 50 years time, 95% of the population think it is fine. Does that make it morally right?
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What is good about slaughtering thousands of people, women and children included? Theland, you’re welcome to answer that too if you like.
Naomi , when you put it in such stark terms it of course makes no sense.
But of course this is a non question if asked by an atheist who considers the bible to be pure myth.