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If every individual is his/her own authority, and there is no Absolute Authority, then your guiding principle can be anything or nothing, and it's all the same, which is to say, meaningless.

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But if your Absolute Authority has such a system of morality that He dictates good and evil and morality to his followers, why are the so many variants on what is good and what is not?

Are you saying that Christians today approve of the mass slaughter of the Crusades?  Or the wholesale torture of the Inquisition?  Or the murder of witches in Puritan New England?  All of these were done by Christian churches on the institutional power based on the morality of their God.  Look in the news today.  You can't even get an agreement from the various denominations of Christianity on what is acceptable morality.  They all have their own interpretation.  Are you going to say that the Catholics have a more true sense of morality than the Protestants?  Or the Episcopalians?  The Eastern Orthodoxy?

Religion is only one aspect of morality.  Each individual has their own sense of morality and builds it from many sources.  Some build it entirely on religion, others build it partially on religion and some do so entirely absent of religion.  But not having religion in no way means that you have no sense of morality.  If you can't understand that, then you have completely disregarded God's gift of Free Will and turned religion into a moral crutch.  You don't think about morality at all, you've had it handed to you on a plate and you have been brainwashed to only think that what your church, religious leader or whoever has prescribed as moral is moral. It is perfectly fine to use your religion as the foundation for your sense of morality and then build upon it.  But don't make your church your sole arbiter of what is and is not moral.[/quote]

Not the pp, but everything you just described speaks to man's actions. In everything you're saying, when has God's Word changed on the issue?[/quote]

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