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32412, The scales have fallen from my eyes!
Posted by moot_point, Thu May-19-05 07:16 AM
>It does not. For, a religious activist is acknowledging that
>there is a REAL right in the world that can be worked
>towards.


Do you think that by writing 'it does not' without qualification, is sufficient to convince me or anybody else otherwise?

Even IF there is an objective truth (as you suggest), what happens when a man of God interprets this and communicates it to others? It becomes subjective... D'oh!

>
>However, a relativist CANNOT say that... therefore any "right"
>he suggests should be worked for is merely his personal
>opinion (since moral fact does not exist) and he is then
>merely dogmatically fighting for HIS moral opinion to usurp
>other people's moral opinions.


I'm not sure why you keep using bandying dogmatism, when it is a term that traditionally describes the teachings of the CHURCH. See the irony?


But NOTE, if he's right that
>everything is relative, he is NO right to do this!!! You
>CANNOT refute this. You can be obstinant or irrational, but
>you CANNOT deny this reasoning, unless you don't understant
>reasoning.
>

This is poorly written. I can't understand it.


Do you really think God explains the flaw in the uniformity principle? Do you think it makes sense to say that there cannot be an infinite regression of causes, but a God that is infinite?