tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post4867274958325245642..comments2024-03-26T16:24:34.218+00:00Comments on Meeting The Masters: Morality, Humanist and SpiritualWilliam Wildbloodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-55653816307164154832016-01-16T16:26:44.971+00:002016-01-16T16:26:44.971+00:00I was talking about contemporary Western culture w...I was talking about contemporary Western culture which is surely largely Christian, or Judaeo-Christian, in origin even if there have certainly been other influences, principally classical. But the main point was that even if we think our current morality is mostly humanistically based it is actually just a pygmy standing on the shoulder of a giant which is the Christian moral conception.<br />Yes, you're absolutely right all morality without an absolute to pin it to has no foundation and is therefore really only a matter of choice. In which case, so what?William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-69730415370166240702016-01-16T05:02:50.102+00:002016-01-16T05:02:50.102+00:00"Of course, that's not completely true be..."Of course, that's not completely true because many of the moral ideas that fed into and shaped this belief system were actually inherited from Christianity* (even if this is frequently unacknowledged today)" <br />I think that statement is only partially true. Many, Many greater and lessor Prophets have walked the earth and they all contributed to this sense of behaving properly towards people in a good way. Prophets 10,000 years ago were laying a foundation which would support Christianity's contribution. <br />"That is to say that the love of man, to be true, can only really derive from the love of God"<br />Yep, I agree.<br />"Perhaps that is so but without an absolute reference point what do we base our morality on?"<br />This is a key point. Do we base morality on what evolution has taught us? Well we humans do plenty against what evolution taught us. Do we have 7 billion versions of morality? Does a 3.51 billion person view of morality get to dictate to what a 3.49 billion person view of morality is? Without God, all morality become nonsensical. Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06142985990046914740noreply@blogger.com