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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, objective truth.

"Objective" is defined as "independent of the knower and his consciousness." Truth, according to Aristotle's definition, is defined as "saying of what is that it is and of what is not that it is not.". Truth means "telling it like it is."

Objective truth regarding math and the laws of physics does not seem to need God (putting aside the questions of who set the first object in motion, why something and not nothing, energy, etc.). We can observe gravity.  We can figure out that sand will not work in our car's engine.  We can accept that humans cannot fly like birds.

Objective truth regarding right and wrong actions is different.  Why was it wrong for the Aztecs to rip the hearts out of living babies?

PPs have indicated religious skepticism (objective truth is ONLY found in the sciences) or religious subjectivism (religious "objective truth" is merely feeling).  Religious skeptics say we cannot know objective truth about God.  But the skeptic is saying he knows God well enough to know we can know nothing about Him.  How can the skeptic know with certainty that God cannot be known?  Skeptics usually don't think it is important to know, or are prejudiced against knowing.  The skeptic says we cannot know the truth.  The subjectivist says we all know it.  The skeptic denies truth;  the subjectivist denies error.  Objective truth is "for you, but not for me.".

So for the skeptics and the subjectivists regarding objective truth of right and wrong, why is it wrong to rip the hearts out of living babies?[/quote]

You are really contorting skepticism to fit what you want it to be.

Religious skepticism does not say that we cannot know anything about God.  Religious skeptics say that we have no proof of God.  A skeptic would never claim to prove a negative.[/quote]

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