How does one distinguish between "pop morality" and "absolute morality" anyhow?
ISIS by its nature is not pop morality. It says that individual conscience or even "choice of thought" is not allowed. It is a throwback to an earlier, more idealistic era, when the mild secularism did not affect the Arab/Muslim world. It is all about "one moral standard" and only it's standard is the correct one.
Pop morality was the days of Saddam Hussein, when the only standard of right or wrong was what Saddam wanted. However.. Saddam was a bit more pious (or enabled piety) more than people realize http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/opinio....html?_r=0.
Can you not appreciate that religion can somewhat blinker human sensibilities?
ISIS by its nature is not pop morality. It says that individual conscience or even "choice of thought" is not allowed. It is a throwback to an earlier, more idealistic era, when the mild secularism did not affect the Arab/Muslim world. It is all about "one moral standard" and only it's standard is the correct one.
Pop morality was the days of Saddam Hussein, when the only standard of right or wrong was what Saddam wanted. However.. Saddam was a bit more pious (or enabled piety) more than people realize http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/opinio....html?_r=0.
Can you not appreciate that religion can somewhat blinker human sensibilities?