You read me wrong. There are nonreligious types who have exactly the same problems (with appropriate variants). Many dedicated Commissars were quite sure they were right and on the path to the future and willing to kill anyone who got in the way. And did by the millions.
Religion has no lock on "crazy, criminal, hypocritical, corrupt, naughty, etc." It actually often does appear to have a positive influence on some people who otherwise WOULD go down the path of "crazy, criminal, hypocritical, corrupt, naughty, etc."
I was thinking of "moral absolutes" as necessarily associated with religion because that is the commonest manifestation, but actually religion has no lock on that either. Political systems can inspire the blind, unreasoning faith that leads to them.
I see no way that "moral absolutes" can be anything but the assertion of some particular person's opinion, though. |
