No, I don’t think this and have never stated so. I don’t know where you get this.
I am not interested in providing an example of this. I don’t know why I should. Should you?
. No. I have never argued this as an absolute. If OFTEN is so, but not ALWAYS.
I have no problem with sharing some ethics with Catholics, or other Christians, or followers of other faiths. I think most of us share the same basic values, anyway.
What?
That we must always follow our conscience; i.e. our conscience is our moral authority.
How would the comments of a couple of lay Catholics here at CAF, have an impact on any Christian truth…it is either true or it isn’t. If everybody based their membership in any particular religion, on the behavior or comments of a few members of that religion or denomination, then there would be no religion in this world and no God, in anybody’s life. We can all find something that is disagreeable, about a few members of any religion or denomination. Is there anything in the Catechism of the Catholic Church that you disagree with?
Hardly!
Here’s some more absolute moral truths you also believe in:
What standard do you use to make the determination that this conclusion is “best” and others are not?
This one,
Have you read about the Reformation? ?
Mt.7:1"Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
2. For the same way you judge others, you will be judged,
with the same measure you use , it will be measured unto you."
Be careful,
God bless you,
bluelake
You keep making absolutes. You keep proclaiming things to be true.
Again, if* you *don’t even believe that could be speaking a truth, why should anyone listen to you?
I continue to engage you in dialogue because I want you to really think your paradigm through–to see how it falls apart in the face of logic and reason. And to see that there’s another answer that you dismissed in your youth and ought to re-consider now.
And here’s another argument that you believe in absolute moral truths: the fact that you post your thoughts here.
The “combination” I described above in that same post. It’s how we all operate. Just some of us move religion more centrally. Others, the teachings of their parents. Others, something else…
So, when someone asks, “Did you have a good day?” you consider that a waste of time?And here’s another argument that you believe in absolute moral truths: the fact that you post your thoughts here.
Otherwise, if there’s no truth all we’re doing here is discussing subjectivities like,
PR:: “I feel cold”
Larkin: “No! I feel hot”
Clearly, a discussion about subjective data is ludicrous.
If you don’t believe in a moral truth then your posts have as much meaning as your saying, “I feel hot.”
Nope.
Setting aside the fact that you used a subjective standard to support a subjective statement;
your standard is subjective then? It being subjective then your thinking it “best” is also subjective? That is it best for you and not necessarily best for everyone? Or do you believe this “combination” is an absolute?Just repeating this, because it is where I stated what I believe about the best approach to morality.
It is subjective, like ALL morality (which exists only in the minds of sentient beings), not anywhere else in the universe (that we have found).Setting aside the fact that you used a subjective standard to support a subjective statement;
God bless
Or this one: “I am tiring of these claims that any declarative sentence is an ‘absolute claim.’”
Great okay now we are getting somewhere.
larkin you made the claim that all absolutes have an exception which is in fact an absolute claim. If you are going to be a skeptic why not be the ultimate skeptic?Or this one: “I am tiring of these claims that any declarative sentence is an ‘absolute claim.’”