"The human brain learns right from wrong the same way it learns language. The vast majority of the world’s languages share at least one thing in common: a system of guidelines for usage, the grammar. Just as languages have rules about where to put a subject, an adverb, and a predicate in a sentence, so too every culture has a set of guidelines to teach people how to make moral decisions in different situations. Once an individual acquires his specific moral grammar, other moral grammars may be as incomprehensible to him as Chinese is to a native English speaker.” The Futurist
So the rules of morality are arbitrary as long as we agree on them as a culture. What if our culture is way off base i.e. naziism, inquisition, slavery, etc.? Then what objective basis do you have to say the culture is wrong? Also you have a chicken and the egg scenario. Is the cultural worldview a product of individual world-views or as you state it individual world-views are completely shaped by culture. Why would culture ever change as it does if it is the defining factor?
People know right from wrong. They actually form beliefs about it in order to justify doing what they really want to do. If moral rules were really like grammatical rules then all we would have to do is educate thieves in jail that stealing is wrong and then we could let them out. But we all know that mere education is not what's needed. It is transformation. This analogy is assuming that people want to be moral, that they want to play by the rules. But there is nothing gained by breaking grammatical rules, but there is a perceived gain in breaking moral rules. This analogy assumes a philosophy that is intellectually and morally bankrupt..., moral relativism. The most consistent thing that it does is promote a moral epistemology that is a product of the zeitgeist of this era, post modernism. So the writer of this post is a product of the grammar of our culture.
So what will you say to a Holy God on Judgement Day? I was following my culture? Instead repent of Relativism and read the only objective source of truth delivered to mankind. The Bible. It is the transcendent, perfect Word of God. If you have every broken it's law then you will be punished by a Holy God. But God became a man and was crucified for the sins of all who will repent and trust Him alone for salvation. Then you will be transformed and put on Jesus Christ's righteousness and know the glory of God.
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I am all for de-construction of morality. Peace!
So the rules of morality are arbitrary as long as we agree on them as a culture. What if our culture is way off base i.e. naziism, inquisition, slavery, etc.? Then what objective basis do you have to say the culture is wrong? Also you have a chicken and the egg scenario. Is the cultural worldview a product of individual world-views or as you state it individual world-views are completely shaped by culture. Why would culture ever change as it does if it is the defining factor?
People know right from wrong. They actually form beliefs about it in order to justify doing what they really want to do. If moral rules were really like grammatical rules then all we would have to do is educate thieves in jail that stealing is wrong and then we could let them out. But we all know that mere education is not what's needed. It is transformation. This analogy is assuming that people want to be moral, that they want to play by the rules. But there is nothing gained by breaking grammatical rules, but there is a perceived gain in breaking moral rules. This analogy assumes a philosophy that is intellectually and morally bankrupt..., moral relativism. The most consistent thing that it does is promote a moral epistemology that is a product of the zeitgeist of this era, post modernism. So the writer of this post is a product of the grammar of our culture.
So what will you say to a Holy God on Judgement Day? I was following my culture? Instead repent of Relativism and read the only objective source of truth delivered to mankind. The Bible. It is the transcendent, perfect Word of God. If you have every broken it's law then you will be punished by a Holy God. But God became a man and was crucified for the sins of all who will repent and trust Him alone for salvation. Then you will be transformed and put on Jesus Christ's righteousness and know the glory of God.
Another critique.... What does this post have to do with Architecture?
oh lord!
what does anything has to do with architecture?
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