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Originally Posted by Someday
There definitely is a right and wrong. Anyone that goes out to the theater to see the new Batman movie can acknowledge this. The only blockbuster movies you have are these superheroes. Why? Because they are people fighting for truth, justice and, dare I say it, the American way, that it is good conquering evil, that good doesn't somehow or another become evil. It is tempted to become evil but it doesn't.
You speak of law. Law is not a true indicator of what is intrinsically right or wrong. Hitler's first law when coming to power was forbidding Jews to bathe with Aryans. It was a law. It was perfectly legal. But it was wrong. There is something beyond what people believe and are taught about what is good and what is evil. It transcends cultures. Sure, in governments hands, any moral code has the chance to become enforced by police power. That's what liberty and freedom is supposed to prevent. In this day and age of the new morality of political correctness, new laws are being written to give certain groups extra privileges not available to all. In enlightened Europe, hate speech is punishable by police action in several countries. In the US, special "hate" crimes have been added to the books to make punishment more severe if it is caused by hatred.
You seem to want to target fundamentalist theists in your response, and I am not sure if you are singling them out....or if you are using this as an example. Progressives are just as guilty of doing this through political correctness and the forcing of a new morality upon the masses.
When gay marriage is legal, will I, an heterosexual male be allowed to marry my best friend, another heterosexual male so that I can help him out by putting him on my insurance while he is battling cancer? Can me and all my friends marry each other for the same or different reasons? Where does this end?
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Im not saying that there is NOT a right and wrong that people are using to determine what to do or not to do... im saying that right and wrong is created and determined by people ....and over the years that has changed as humanity has evolved. Our Beliefs have shaped them, and as we have evolved over the years we are where we are at today. Some work well, some dont.. We make it so.
Hollywood has always used the Hero and Villain role, this doesnt tell us what is truth by God, it only shows the battle that has gone on for years as people have tried to live in harmony with each other and peoples choices have underminded another persons values. Everyone is the villian and everyone is the hero depending on each persons perspective of themselves.
Most stems out of people living in the illusion of being seperate from each other and seperate from God.. out of this choices are made which seek to harm, and protect ones own castle
Most of what religious folk class right and wrong is based only in a belief they have about what they THINK God prefers or hates. When it comes down to it.. they cannot validate Gods preference other than to point to their reglious scriptures which varies from one religion to the next, from one offshoot to the next.
As for your comment on " When gay marriage is legal, will I, an heterosexual male be allowed to marry my best friend, another heterosexual male so that I can help him out by putting him on my insurance while he is battling cancer? Can me and all my friends marry each other for the same or different reasons? Where does this end? "
The above is no different than male and female.. people grind their teeth and get all up in arms because they have been told God hates it, God prefers XYB..
So when does it end? When a person chooses a new belief about whatever they are questioning