[little jeremiah]

I like that:

"In the purely moral model, one must admit to a transcendent authority who is the author of absolutes. Those absolutes may or may not withstand the scrutiny of our puny reason."

[IronJack]

Thanks. In this day and age, we fancy ourselves the authors of our own absolutes. However, they are only the spawn of desire and reason, mere justifications for our own shortcomings.

Rather than scaling the summit, we erode the mountain.