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What is the point of morality if you're a theist?
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RE: What is the point of morality if you're a theist?
(October 21, 2013 at 1:13 pm)Drich Wrote: What are you talking about? Soceity is currently based on moral relativism. The fact that just with in one generation there had been a drastic paradyme shift on the views and understanding of marriage, says that 'pop morality' is not based on an unchanging standard, but what ever soceity deems as being moral at the time.

Yes, that process is called self correction, but that doesn't mean that every moral tenet is completely based upon the whims of the majority. We do have certain absolutes, based upon our position as physical beings in a physical universe. The process isn't perfect- hence the need for correction- but doomsaying over moral relativism misses the point entirely, and also misdefines what actual moral relativism is.

Quote:And when 'soceity' deems it nessary to infringe on the rights and practices of others, then what? Who is moral then?

The same basic things that were moral before; the actual concepts don't shift, the actions do. A change in society can either repair an issue that was immoral before, or turn a moral situation immoral, but the concepts themselves aren't fluid and based entirely on majority approval, because the universe we live in doesn't change according to that either.

Quote:-Or is there some greater reason that our 'morality' is better or more complete than the stuff they are peddeling?

The third option: nobody has it entirely right, but we're learning, and hopefully making the right decisions.

Quote:The laws of God were issued so that we may see our short commings and seek out the attonement we need for eternal life.

And any uses those commandments had in the physical world weren't intended at all?

Quote:Indeed. Self perservation is always the driving force to any soceity's morality. The questions I ask are to get you all to see the trivial nature of what this soceity deems to be 'moral.'

To think beyond regaurding your current 'morality' as being an absolute. If you can learn to question your foundations then you can learn to be free from your soceitial limitations.

But you don't act entirely biblically either, do you? You're restrained by common morality more than the biblical stuff.
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RE: What is the point of morality if you're a theist? - by Esquilax - October 21, 2013 at 2:46 pm

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