Re: ICR and its slurs

Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Thu, 29 May 1997 20:50:49 -0600

>Agreed. However, the assertion Russ makes that this state of affairs
>(widespread agreement on morals) is consistent with what we would expect if
>a universal system of morality exists is valid. That's important, because
>the opposite finding (no agreement on morals) would argue against a
>universal moral system.

And that brings us to the second problem. You are forgetting that, for
most of history, Christians have *not* been able to agree on morality.
Sure, they all believed that murder was wrong, but it was always a question
of what constituted murder. Is killing a Muslim murder? The Crusaders didn't
think so. What about a Jew? Or a "witch"? Or a Jew? Or an atheist? Christianity
has shown no more moral cohesion than any other system of morality, and that
is strongly indicative that there really isn't anything truly objective or
transcendent about it.

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