(November 21, 2017 at 12:02 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: You said it right there in your reply. "People don't necessarily require absolute certainty in order to act." Nor do they need absolute certainty in order to arrive at conclusions (ie. rape is wrong, daughter strangling is wrong etc.). I'm not ABSOLUTELY certain that daughter strangling is wrong, but I'm PRETTY DAMN SURE it's wrong.
Now you're admitting that you have absolutes (you're never going to change your mind on daughter strangling), but saying you're only PRETTY DAMN SURE rather than ABSOLUTELY in an attempt to maintain some pretense at humility.
Face it, you're as absolute on certain things as any theist. And you should be - there's nothing wrong with it.
Quote:Reason is a pretty good ethical guide IMO. Scripture is not nearly as good for the reasons I outlined in the OP.
In OP you didn't even consider the source of scriptural ethics. Either:
1. They're from an omniscient creator. Reason tells me such a being is in a better position to determine ethics than we are.
2. They're from men, and as such were probably arrived at through reason.
