Ignorance of Ethics
One of the things that really annoys me about fundamentalist Christians is that they often have an ignorance of an entire field of study; sometimes multiple fields of study. But Ethics in particular seems to be a field that many Christians aren’t even aware exists.
It is not unusual for me to be in a conversation with a fundamentalist and they ask, “What is the basis for morality?” Despite the fact that I have written an article destroying the idea that God some how “grounds” morality, they insist that without their God in particular, there can be no moral grounding and hence no morality.
It seems that these particular Christians know absolutely nothing about ethics and don’t seem to want to know anything about ethics. They just want to play, “gotcha” and the problem is that they are too ignorant to know that they have lost the game.
Fortunately for them, ignorance is of a particular nature that it can be dispelled through knowledge. All they have to do is go to a library or a book store and read a basic introductory guide to ethics. I would recommend something with “for dummies” in the title.
Related articles
- Mutable Morality, Not Subjective Morality. Moral Pluralism, Not Moral Relativism. (camelswithhammers.com)
- What Does It Mean For Pleasure And Pain To Be “Intrinsically Instrumental” Goods? (camelswithhammers.com)
- Morality: God’s ultimate proof? (secularnewsdaily.com)
- Moral vs. Non-Moral Values (camelswithhammers.com)
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