Ridiculous

[Posted to Xanga 9/29/10]


So I was reading an article posted on Facebook by a CoC friend today...

"The former category finds expression in the following statement found in Humanist Manifestos I & II:

[W]e affirm that moral values derive their source from human experience. Ethics is autonomous and situational, needing no theological or ideological sanction (1973, 17).

The foregoing declaration is wholly void of reason. If man is “autonomous,” i.e., he is a self-governing creature, there could never be a situation in which he could do wrong! It is an exercise in futility to attempt to construct any sort of ethical system apart from the concept that man has a soul that ultimately will be accountable to God in eternity, that Heaven has revealed that concept, and regulated human activity, through the Scriptures."

Excuse me, but that's just...retarded. Mr. Author, are you seriously claiming that if human beings decide right and wrong for themselves, they'll never decide anything they do is wrong? If you didn't have a god looking over your shoulder would you happily go about killing babies and raping puppies and whatnot? Well let me tell you, I for one don't believe in some absolute theological moral code and I'm well aware that I do the wrong thing more than I would like. I have a conscience. If you and your ilk would decide anything you had an impulse to do was right without your religion, I want nothing to do with any of you.

For Pete's sake. So ARROGANT.

(You can read the rest of the article, which is typical of the CoC, here: http://www.christiancourier.com/articles/55-a-critical-look-at-situation-ethics)