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To: discostu

Anyway I already found Christ, then stopped going to church anyway. I’m just not a worshiping kind of guy.


I admit that the whole “Praise and Worship” thing can seem cultish.

I have my own problems with that. But to continue to suggest that morals are “subjective” is simply a way the rationalize personal behaviors or beliefs.


89 posted on 03/27/2015 2:00:03 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Zeneta

It’s not even the cultishness. I’m just not capable of it. I’ve never really hero worshiped either. I just don’t seem to have the pedestal necessary to put people or entities on.

One person figuring out a way that act isn’t immoral is rationalization.
A whole society agreeing is subjective morality.

Sure you can make the case that underlying all that is some core objective moral concept. But we as people will never deal with that, it’s always going to be filtered through our subjective filters of society, family, personal desires and laws. Which also means we can never truly define those objective moral concepts. Even when you get a nice bulleted list like the 10 Commandments we’re gonna find a way to weasel it, is it “thou shalt not kill” or thou shalt not murder”? Well sometimes you have kill so it’s murder, but what’s murder? Well...

People are subjective being. Subsequently everything we deal with is subjective. Did you see the articles running around social media earlier in the month on whether or not people could see blue in ancient Greek times? Which brings up the interesting implication if when we see blue is it really blue? The very color of the ocean turns out to be subjective and changes depending on our ability to see it.


90 posted on 03/27/2015 2:11:38 PM PDT by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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