Religiosity, Spirituality and the Moral

[Gavin Duffy]

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My sense of spirituality, such as it is, doesn't inform my morality at all. What I call "spirituality" is simply a one-word condensation of my sense of the ineffable, and my feeling of smallness, when confronted with brute facts of nature.

I can relate, I would find it almost inconceivable not to find a sense of awe from our understanding of cosmology.

I don't know what you mean by "moral topography", anyway. I know what I think is right or wrong, but it is not colored by where I sense my place in the world, which is currently Central Texas. The moral topography here is limestone hills split by canyons and waterways.

That was perhaps a failed attempt at metaphor lol. Good answer though! What i simply meant was that morality can be viewed as a series of diverse distributed troughs and peaks, temporal in nature, subject to erosion and sedimentation. That the current climate limits us to relativist perspectives. Perhaps that was a more abstract metaphor than i thought lol.