(November 20, 2018 at 6:05 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote:(November 20, 2018 at 4:32 pm)tackattack Wrote: Ideals are valuable when held I agree. Relying on subjective morality and societal ideals is less valuable than objective ideals and an objective moral authority.
There's an interesting misconception that the faithful have, with regards to which side of that line they find themselves on, on account of their faith. The religious often call their other-than objective moral system objective..and the irreligious mistakenly describe their objective moral system as other-than objective.
So I've been told that I might have a misconception and I didn't want to put this in philosophy because it's on account of my faith as a Christian.
Here are my thoughts on morality
There is subjective morality- what I feel internally to be right and wrong as according to my experience and beliefs
There is societal morality- what is commonly accepted to be right or wrong for a people within a particular society
There is universal morality (possibly)- things that rational people of any time and any place find right or wrong
There is objective morality- A being I call God exists outside the universe that influences us through the Holy Spirit to inform of objective morality.
Do I fall under the misconceptions you were referencing?
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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