The problem with forms of objective-morality-prescribing systems is that they are subjective in practice. In other words, these values exist but must be somehow discerned and translated.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\nMy answer to this is a little long (and frequently mocked by my friends, to the point of calling it my hypercube hypothesis) but I think it\u2019s reasonable to say that we can approach the metaphysics of morality the same way we approach the metaphysics of\u00a0mathematics: we ask questions, draw up\u00a0hypotheticals\u00a0and other analogies, and clumsily approach a workable representation of something we don\u2019t have the language to express. \u00a0[Yes, I will go into considerably more detail in the forthcoming post, but I\u2019ll tell you upfront, I\u2019m pretty sure C.S. Lewis agrees with me]<\/p>\n
What if a religion is wrong, but its moral teachings are right?<\/strong>
\nArkanabar T\u2019verrick Ilarsadin said:<\/em><\/p>\nOnce you\u2019ve absorbed what the Church teaches is moral behavior, ask yourself: would the world be better, or worse, if everyone ascribed to that morality?<\/em>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI certainly won\u2019t deny that some churches have been ahead of the curve on many moral issues. \u00a0And it\u2019s an endless torment to me that all the good words for talking about morality (soul, sin, etc) are all extremely Christian language. \u00a0[I do promise a post soon on why I think Original Sin is a useful concept even in atheistic conceptions of morality]. \u00a0My primary fear of organized religion is that it has the power to make people abstract themselves from their moral sense. \u00a0Ultimately, I think it\u2019s bad for people to trust others too much on moral questions, to trust them to the point of ignoring their own\u00a0visceral\u00a0moral experiences. \u00a0No matter whether the church is preaching truths today, you don\u2019t want to get into the bad habit of contracting out your moral sense.<\/p>\n
Hopefully, these brief answers will whet your appetite for the longer posts coming soon. \u00a0Comments are appreciated, especially so I can refine the essays I\u2019m writing, but please remember these are brief<\/em> overviews of my positions. \u00a0I promise to justify them better soon.<\/p>\n
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