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Author Topic:   Absolute Morality...again.
Coragyps
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Message 26 of 300 (333318)
07-19-2006 12:38 PM
Reply to: Message 9 by Faith
07-19-2006 11:30 AM


If the God of the Bible exists, then absolute morality is the Ten Commandments.
So, since you assert that the God of the Bible does exist, you view the making of any graven image as immoral? Or the doing of any work whatsoever on the Sabbath as immoral? Those are among one of the sets of Ten Commandments....unless you prefer "seething a kid in its mother's milk" as an absolute immorality.

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Coragyps
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Message 28 of 300 (333321)
07-19-2006 12:47 PM
Reply to: Message 17 by Hyroglyphx
07-19-2006 12:15 PM


Re: Absolute morality
If someone does not believe that morality is absolute then there is no right or wrong which in turn makes everything permissable.
That's very close to just plain silly. Any human community you can think of has a set of morals, and they differ quite a bit from culture to culture. Marrying six women is forbidden by law and by the standard morality (not to mention common sense!!) in England or Vermont, but was perfectly acceptable and moral to an Ottoman Emperor or a Chinese noble of a few years back. What's permissible is never "everything" - it's what your culture dictates. Whether those dictates come from rational decisions or from the culture's favored mythology is a separate issue.

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Coragyps
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Message 110 of 300 (333915)
07-21-2006 7:48 AM
Reply to: Message 109 by RickJB
07-21-2006 3:31 AM


Re: Wrong Definition
I often find that advocates of "absolute" morality often seem to operate under the assumption that it falls in line with their own beliefs.
Heh! "Often?" That's being pretty generous, Rick. More like "always."

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Coragyps
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Message 114 of 300 (333952)
07-21-2006 11:35 AM
Reply to: Message 112 by Hyroglyphx
07-21-2006 10:56 AM


Re: Absolute morality
Absolute morality is that it is unchanging.
So you're telling us that either:
1) It is immoral and unlawful to do any work of any sort on the Sabbath, whatever day that is,
or 2) the Commandments that Moses brought down the first time don't represent Absolute Morality, despite being written by God's Finger.
Right?

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Coragyps
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Message 133 of 300 (334060)
07-21-2006 3:46 PM
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07-21-2006 2:00 PM


Re: Absolute morality
It means that the Sabbath isn't on a particular day of the week, it always falls on 'Today.'
So I should be stoned to death for coming to work today? Dammit!

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