Clearly, evil is a concept that has altered dramatically from age to age and place to place. That doesn't mean that one is committed to moral relativism in a normative sense i.e. saying that what other cultures did is just different, not wrong. I can acknowledge the fact that my values are probably largely contingent upon my culture, upbringing, etc. and yet coherently maintain that my values are better than those of others. If I didn't do so, they wouldn't be my values.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
