[Right Wing Professor]

Without God, though, your moral objection is simply some local or personal convention that means nothing in the long run.

Why, thank you also for dismissing my ability and those of other non-Christians to make meaningful ethical judgements. I could get down in the mud with you and discuss the substance behind your ethical judgements; but I won't. One of the essentials for a civilized discussion is that we accept the basic humanity of our antagonists, and part of that humanity is that they are capable, like us, of functioning ethical judgments. There is no point in arguing ethics with a sociopath.

[xzins]

There is nothing socio-pathic about my contention that there is no real morality for those who reject the notion of God. That is a position recognized by many atheists as well as theologican Hans Kung and others.

The best you can hope for is your personal view. Then you will die and your personal view won't be worth pi_s against a wall. It'll die with you, and even if it doesn't, that won't matter either because everyone's destined for the dust heap of history.

And that'll be that.

So, you might as well be Pol Pot as anyone else. It's all just personal opinion, anyway.