re: When did our culture quit producing men that would “do what’s right”?

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I didn't use a child as an example because I don't own the child's life the same way I own the truck. If there's a creator of the universe then everything in that universe is a truck.

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Explain why humanity is the truck in this situation and not the child.

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You're confusing objective with absolute. If there's a moral authority, then that moral authority can dictate that A is moral in this situation, but not in this other situation. Or that same authority could say that A is moral today and immoral tomorrow.

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What you've just described is absolute (and subjective), I'm critiquing objective morality as that's what virtually every Christian has claimed forms their worldview with respect to morality.

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You don't think a creator has authority over what he creates? Who does, then?

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Not necessarily, and there's a lot of variables to account for in determining who would.

Moreover, even if that question couldn't be answered you don't get to just plug God in there automatically.

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I didn't use a child as an example because I don't own the child's life the same way I own the truck. If there's a creator of the universe then everything in that universe is a truck.

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Yea, you don't own a child's life in the same way you own a truck, because one is an animate object and the other isn't (see my last post).