Placing morality into the category of that which is not absolute because of the fact that some people may have different "morals" isn't logical either. Lets take math, which is absolute, or at least an example of it, such as the famous 2+2. Imagine I had grown up in a place where I was taught 2+2=5 all of my life, would this negate the fact that 2+2=4? Of course not. Where you grow up can have an impact on how you are, but to say that it effects the absolution of something doesn't make any sense. I could grow up being taught a lie (i.e 2+2=5), believing the lie, or grow up being taught the truth (i.e 2+2=4), believing the truth, and it wouldn't effect what is a lie or what is the truth on the basis that I was grown up being taught it. Any such philosephy otherwise would be as easily applied by an ignorant person to the fact that 2+2=4. I could simply say that 2+2=5 to me personally, and that I don't have any concern for what math (the authoirty in this case) says about it. Which may be personally gratifying, but has no truth to it. I could however, simply change the properties (the "idea") of 2 and then say that it is simply a misunderstanding of your personal belief about the number 2 that causes you to come to the conclusion that 2+2=4, but that would just be the typical way of thinking yourself into stupidity, taking away the absolution of something by changing the formula for which the correct answer is received, making it impossible to receive any correct answer, and therefore negating the correct altogether. It is as the Proverbs says, "A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions." (Proverbs 18:2)
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Isaiah 55:9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." |