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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (17604)6/30/2001 2:19:59 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
>What about the assumptions of moral relativism? Now that's whacked! It starts
with the unwarranted assumption that God does not exist.<

Perhaps Greg is starting with the proposition that the only possible God is his God. In that case you couldn't have moral relativism because that really doesn't square with the rather bureaucratic and (in general) highly authoritarian religions generated by the Christian Bible. The Bible has it's own code of morality, and it isn't a bit relative- except in the sense that the way Christians practice morality and square it with the Bible has changed quite a bit from time to time. So even though they won't admit morality is relative, in practice it certainly is.

That said there are certainly countless Gods one can imagine that would work perfectly nicely with relativism. But Greg may not be open minded enough to be able to imagine them.
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