(February 26, 2016 at 10:13 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(February 26, 2016 at 1:46 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: But isn't this the very definition of subjective morality? It also begs the question: What if our understanding changes again?
No. You must have misunderstood me. Subjective morality means there is no concrete right and wrong. What I'm saying is I believe there is a concrete right and wrong and always has been and always will be, but we may not fully agree with it or acknowledge it. Because as the video explains, we believe morality does not come from us, but from a higher law maker who made these laws. You are right, in the future perhaps we will regress in that way and slavery will be more accepted again in all societies. Will that make slavery good? No. Slavery has and always will be evil because it is an objectively, inherently evil act. Because it takes away the inherent right a human being has. That's what I believe.
I don't think I did, though. You are literally defining subjective morality and calling it objective. Your platonic standard is nothing more than your subjective moral standard at this time. As your understanding of god changes, so does your moral standard. It's also of note that your standard would also change with the Catholic Church's doctrine.
At some point, as the world moves farther and farther away from religion and Christianity specifically, it will likely be moral to do whatever it takes to win people's souls to save them from eternal torture from the Church's perspective. This is just conjecture, but it serves as a flagpost for subjective morality that I see as extremely likely.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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