Russia embraces religious intolerance with draconian blasphemy and anti-gay laws

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Statler,

You might want to look at the thread http://atheistforums.org/thread-19363.html where the idea that relativistic morality allows judgement of other's moral systems is heavily covered. No absolute required.

But it doesn’t allow for judgments of other moral systems because it is all purely arbitrary (which is a cardinal sin in logical reasoning). If two people are allowed to adopt contradictory moral systems you cannot say one is superior to the other or else you’re appealing to a system that transcends both people.

Actually you are wrong. Relative morality provides a history of moral values which we can easily use a measure of any given moral dilemma.
There is nothing arbitrary about it if it is an evolved tool.

If I can say one toaster oven is better than another without requiring a toaster oven that transcends both I can do the same with morality, art, architecture, music and all the other things we judge on a daily basis.

This does not mean that you will always be able to make a judgement as to which of 2 choices is the morally superior. Sometimes its just not that clear.