Back again (I’m a she, BTW).
Problem is, strength, that you equate any talk from anyone on religion as expressing ONLY opinion. If Mr. X talks about a given sin, you’ll argue that since Mrs. Y doesn’t think that it’s a sin for HER then it isn’t really a sin at all. Or only a sin for Mr. X and his OPINION.
Since you don’t believe that there is any absolute truth that can be expressed about any given religion or denomination thereof, you can (and do) go on about the relativistic, “why do you care, it’s ONLY opinion anyway”?
Of course, that is, indeed ONLY your opinion.
So you’ve painted yourself into a corner, and you want to paint everybody else into their own little corners. . .and never have to deal with any real absolutes. If God is only somebody’s opinion, then indeed there is no reason, in ANY sense of the word, to care.
Luckily for us all, He is not “just an opinion”.
Even on the monstruously sophistical argumentative ground that any given statement regarding a religious tenet is purely relative, it stands to reason that somewhere out there in that relativistic and indifferential world there is one “religion”, one “denomination” that is “more right” than any of the others. For a religious person, the judgment on what is more “right” rests on the known Aristotelian, Platonian, Augustinian, Thomistic or other philosophic standards of his or her religion (and this can and does include Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindu etc.). Even the most atheistic, humanistic person out there has SOME particular judgmental “preferences”, be they ideological, governmental, even personal, i.e., “organic foods are BETTER than non-organic foods”, correct? But try to tell the die-hard vegetarian that just because HE thinks eating beef is wrong doesn’t mean that it’s wrong for everyone else. . .then sit back and watch the fur fly, figuratively speaking, as the person who a moment ago was calmly asserting his superiority in calling religious ideas “mere opinions” frothing at the mouth and refusing to accept the “opinion” of a carnivore as having any, ANY! moral worth whatsoever.
There ARE moral absolutes and this has been known for centuries. People have been trying to hide from the knowledge for just about the same length of time, too, or somehow justifying THEIR absolute opinions but nobody else’s.
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