Morality
This is a long video but well worth it if you want to understand the secular left’s position on animals and their relationship with humans. The key point, in my estimation, comes in during the Q&A at the end where one of the audience members makes the point that we have to come up with [...]
The licentious tell men of orderly lives that they stray from nature’s path, while they themselves follow it; as people in a ship think those move who are on the shore. On all sides the language is similar. We must have a fixed point in order to judge. The harbour decides for those who are [...]
Here is a portion of an exchange I recently had via Facebook with Nigel, a friend of mine. The topic of this section is about whether the Bible can legitimately be used as an objective moral standard. The problem is, as I pointed out, the Bible can only be considered a universal standard if an [...]
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Greg Koukl recently wrote an excellent post on seven fatal flaws of relativism. One of the chief objections to attacks on moral relativism (often held by philosophical naturalists) is that morality is defined by culturally accepted norms. Thus, they argue, that there is an absolute in the sense that society holds some actions to be [...]
When asked about where moral standards come from, a common tactic of a moral relativist is to attempt to ground moral knowledge in what society deems right or wrong at any given point in time. The problem this poses, however, is that in this understanding of morality, societies can never be said to be wrong. [...]
In a recent address to the UN Human Right’s Council, Obama declared that America was guilty of several human rights violations. However these human rights are not the same things we would normally (meaning historically) associate with human rights. Instead, Obama’s list of our violations of human rights is very telling when it comes to [...]
Ellis Potter, in a talk posted by Apologetics315, made an assertion that I found to be quite helpful in explaining how Christianity is not, as Christopher Hitchens asserts; evil, totalitarian, and oppressive . All things comport to a particular form (or several related forms) and when the form one is made to conform to is [...]
If by secularism we mean philosophical naturalism in the sense that the only reality is the physical reality of atoms, particles, and “laws of nature” to the exclusion of metaphysical constructs such as a soul then our biggest hurdle to overcome, long before we deal with the grounds of any objective morality, is to answer where we get the notion of “ought to” from.
When President Obama stands up and tells the nation that we should “focus more on the ‘hard sciences’” and then a few weeks later decries the “immorality” of the executive bonuses taken at AiG, I wonder if he recognizes the contradiction, or at least insufficiency, in his logic. He can’t have his cake and eat [...]
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