Moral Relativism

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Why do you believe that this is correct? The immediate problem with this I see is if we focus on the source we utlimatley lead this discussion to the question of "Is there a God or is there no God?"

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I agree with crash on the first question. There is no way to sort out absolute from relative morality. In essense, it is all relative-- relative to an individual or group's concept of the world.For the second, I don't think the discussion needs to go there. For the purpose at hand, we could simply assume that a God exists and ask "which one?" We end up in the same position as before.------------------
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Circumcision irritates me too, crash.

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Yeah, you are whining. By this logic we shouldn't bother tying off the umbilical cord. No surgery should ever be performed on infants, right? Not even beneficial ones?

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Necessary surgery is in a different class than cosmetic surgery, yes? Then your conclusions just don't follow. If the kid is going to die, do something. But unnecessary surgery?------------------
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Many people would rather be safe than free, apparently.

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... which is exactly why our government is taking away our freedoms.------------------
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... since most founded in religions are prescriptive and lead people to act in a manner that is counter to full enjoyment of life.

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Agreed. I tend to think, though, that moral codes have less to do with enjoyment and more to do with survival. That said, we are smart enough to weave in the happy-camper factor, if we could just leave out the superstition.------------------
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