RE: Absolute Truth (I know, but I need some help)
September 28, 2015 at 4:55 pm
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2015 at 4:56 pm by ApeNotKillApe.)
Absolutes truth is to claim certainty, and certainty is dangerous when not tempered with reason.
The law of God is absolute, it cannot be challenged, you can't argue with God, it can't be reasoned with. That kind of law is by definition immoral, it has nothing to do with being decent, it's about obedience, adherence to the law whatever the law happens to be, this kind of absolutist thinking is what causes members of certain sects to deny their children life saving treatments like blood transfusions, they will passively euthanize their own children because of a vague passage in a book, it is a slave mentality.
To claim to an absolute is to deny yourself the ability to question your actions, to abandon reason. If you're certain, then you don't need a reason.
The law of God is absolute, it cannot be challenged, you can't argue with God, it can't be reasoned with. That kind of law is by definition immoral, it has nothing to do with being decent, it's about obedience, adherence to the law whatever the law happens to be, this kind of absolutist thinking is what causes members of certain sects to deny their children life saving treatments like blood transfusions, they will passively euthanize their own children because of a vague passage in a book, it is a slave mentality.
To claim to an absolute is to deny yourself the ability to question your actions, to abandon reason. If you're certain, then you don't need a reason.
