(June 9, 2012 at 8:57 am)MysticKnight Wrote: From my perspective, it's because God is the basis to these things, and hence that is their nature, and has given us knowledge of it. So that when we look at morality, greatness, we see an eternal basis to it. It rather seems like it would be a delusion if it didn't have an eternal basis. The eternal basis of these things also seems to be a person. It can't be some unconscious energy force.
And from my perspective it looks like you're just reading God in wherever you like. Far from being eternal, morality in terms of what we expect from one another, has changed much over time. Even today, while there are common themes which appear in the morality of many cultures, it is not everywhere the same. Shame is different than guilt for example. You seem to be in the throes of a naive and largely discredited Platonic idealism. If you're interested you might check wikipedia to see just how closely your point of view mirrors that one, and read the critiques it has received. It could change your point of view.
