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Old 04-30-2007, 12:22 PM
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Default \"The Dissolute Dogmatists\"

Many of the theists on this forum claim that without religious-based morality, then ethically, "anything goes." That is because their code of ethics, based on the supernatural, is also ultimately subjective.

Thus, according these theists, it's only a matter of which code of ethics one accepts on faith. An objective, rational morality is defined to be impossible.

Here is a good essay which makes the cogent point that religious morality is merely a variant of subjectivism in ethics:

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