re question for those with popular morality paul hudson jr hudson athena cs uga edu writes i was not directly going to come up with a moral argument for the existence of god rather i was trying to show the absurdity of atheistic materialist relatavists trying to embrace some common moral system as though it were absolute man knows in his heart that there is right and wrong we have all inherited this knowledge no matter how absurd it is to suggest that a common moral system created by mankind is absolute it is not contrary to reason to suggest that a common moral system created by mankind is sensible in fact for the bible to be of any use to mankind as a moral code it must be interpreted by mankind and a workable moral system created for everyday use the jewish talmud is the result of centuries of biblical scholars analysing every word of the torah to understand the morality behind it the children of israel were given a very strict set of moral civil judicial and ceremonial laws to follow and yet this was clearly not enough to cover every instance of moral dilemma in their society for a christian the situation is no better it seems to me that the only code of morality that we have from the judeo christian god is that which is contained in the bible which we can see from the diverse opinions in the christian newsgroups is not clear there may well be an absolute morality defined by the judeo christian god for mankind to follow but it seems that we only have a subset simply because the concept was written down by man this leads to the problem of defining morality for our society if we take the divine morality then we have a code of practice which may be interpreted in many different ways as an example consider the immolation of heretics in the fifteenth century and the interpretation of the bible which allows a man to do that to another man under the precept to administer justice if we take an agnostic morality then we have a code of practice that can be modified to suit society with all the danger that this implies alternatively we could take the basis of the judeo christian morality and interpret extend this to create and justify a code of morality which suits the society we live in and enables the people to live righteously as many christian and non christian philosophers have done whatever the driving force behind the definition of morality for our society i think the important aspect is the result david on religion oh where is the sea the fishes cried as they swam its clearness through
