RE: Is it true that there is no absolute morality?
February 23, 2017 at 6:27 pm
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2017 at 6:27 pm by bennyboy.)
(February 23, 2017 at 1:56 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(February 23, 2017 at 12:37 pm)Khemikal Wrote: -Xenophanes c.500BC
You do realize that Xenophane was arguing for a more austere and comprehensive monotheism. This was his critique of the popular polytheism of his time. How typical of you to present an uneducated argument of convenience that actually means the opposite of what you think it does.
Thank goodness truth isn't a product of historical pedantry.
The truth, and it's pretty obvious, is that the face of God has changed as the cultures it has spread through have developed. Do you expect a husband to cane his wife to keep her in line? Do you think people during Jesus' time depicted him as blond and blue-eyed?
Here's the thing-- if the face of God changes with the developments of man, then God IS a development of man. So any moral system that "comes from God" comes in fact from man. Your moral system is absolute in the sense that it was presumably literally written in stone-- not because it was provided by a cosmos-creating God that still has enough free time to watch boys masturbate in the shower and cluck disapprovingly.
