Science and religion

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All atheists are moral relativists

Moral relativism may be any of several philosophical positions concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different people and cultures.

Which one do you mean?

Descriptive moral relativism holds only that some people do in fact disagree about what is moral

^Agree

meta-ethical moral relativism holds that in such disagreements, nobody is objectively right or wrong

^depends on the disagreement. Sometimes morals are subjective, sometimes people can legitimately argue in favor of the morality or immorality of an action.

normative moral relativism holds that because nobody is right or wrong, we ought to tolerate the behavior of others even when we disagree about the morality of it.

^Stereotypical free-for-all scenario? No thank you.

Not all descriptive relativists adopt meta-ethical relativism, and moreover, not all meta-ethical relativists adopt normative relativism. Richard Rorty, for example, argued that relativist philosophers believe "that the grounds for choosing between such opinions is less algorithmic than had been thought," but not that any belief is equally as valid as any other.