RE: Faith is Feelings
February 22, 2021 at 12:30 pm
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2021 at 12:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's pretty common to find a religious person that very much enjoys something that their religion insists is bad, or wouldn't do a thing that their religion insists is good or that they should do. - this alone rules out subjectivity as the frame of moral reference to that person with respect to their faith.
Insisting that a moral system is a product of the beliefs of our fathers or..broadly, our culture, is to insist that the moral system is relative. So that's just one way that any given faith can be something other than subjective with respect to it's moral underpinnings. They may also contain objective moral assertions as another way to be something other than subjective.
We, all of us...religious, irreligious, god believers and atheists have a tendency to communicate our moral intuitions as though we took them to be true.
Insisting that a moral system is a product of the beliefs of our fathers or..broadly, our culture, is to insist that the moral system is relative. So that's just one way that any given faith can be something other than subjective with respect to it's moral underpinnings. They may also contain objective moral assertions as another way to be something other than subjective.
We, all of us...religious, irreligious, god believers and atheists have a tendency to communicate our moral intuitions as though we took them to be true.
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