There is a post modern non-ethics. It is a not ethics because it rejects natural law. By rejecting natural law, it removes any standard or pretense of objectivity. It becomes, overtly, an exercise in power: the old sins are boring and must become virtues, and the old virtues must become sins.
One cannot talk of adultery or lust, but exploring your sexuality.
One must not love one’s nation or people, nor associate with those of your tribe, for that is exclusionary and racist.
But morality does not have those qualities. As Paul said, if we do not have the law, it is written in us. We cannot live that way. Instead, we know that morality is objective, and there is an ethics with meaning.
This is little more than a failure to understand what morality is, because while the existence of God is nominally disputable, the objectivity of morality is not, and more importantly, cannot be disputed.
The definitions of morality refer us to the definition of moral, which is given a follows: of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; expressing or conveying truths or counsel as to right conduct, as a speaker or a literary work. founded on the fundamental principles of right conduct rather than on legalities, enactment, or custom. capable of conforming to the rules of right conduct: a moral being.conforming to the rules of right conduct
Now, if “the fundamental principles of right conduct” are not mere legalities, enactment, or custom, then they must be objective, for the obvious reason that if the standard for right conduct is subjective, then no such standard exists, not being a fundamental principle. Morality not only is not subjective, it cannot be subjective, because a subjective fundamental principle is both an oxymoron and an actual contradiction in terms.
If there is no ethics and no law, then there is no holiness, and this passage is nonsense. (I am aware that the aim of post modern theology is that all scripture becomes nonsense, useful myths for the narrative of this moment, lest someone repent and be saved).
13Therefore prepare your minds for action; discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed. 14Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance. 15Instead, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct; 16for it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
17If you invoke as Father the one who judges all people impartially according to their deeds, live in reverent fear during the time of your exile. 18You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold, 19but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish. 20He was destined before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake. 21Through him you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are set on God.
22Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from the heart. 23You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God. 24For
“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,
25 but the word of the Lord endures forever.”
That word is the good news that was announced to you.
We are to seek holiness and righteousness. This is reliably not what the elite teach and do. They have their new faux sins and their new acts of virtue: to silence, to oppress, to no platform means that one is of great virtue. I need to thank a therapist who is relentlessly progressive for this: it is a frightening example: one of the most successful businessmen in Dunedin said what he thought, but the squash player who is too short for the ride is hurt so has decided to punish him.
A Dunedin man who slammed anyone who supports te reo M?ori as a “boring bigot” in a recent opinion piece in the Otago Daily Times needs to remember exactly where he lives, says Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy.
“Anyone who complains about te reo M?ori being used and celebrated in this country need to get one thing straight: this is New Zealand. Aotearoa New Zealand – so get used to it,” said Dame Susan.
“This year marks 30 years since te reo was made an official language of its own country. We’ve come a long way since then but it’s clear that some of us have longer to go than others.”
Dame Susan noted that the angry writer of the ODT piece was originally born in Ireland, as were her ancestors.
“Irish people have fought for years for the right to speak their own indigenous language. Like New Zealand, English predominates but Irish Gaelic is recognised as the national and first official language of the republic. Irish Gaelic is a compulsory subject in all public schools. Anyone wanting to study at an Irish university must be proficient in Irish Gaelic,” said Dame Susan.
“Language can divide us – as this opinion writer would like it to do. But more and more, language is bringing people together.”
To answer the squash player: Maori is a good language for poetry and ritual, but Cyrillic is better. I have no issues about people speaking Maori on the marae, but I need a language with a larger vocabulary, a creole if you will, that steals words so that there is great precision. That language exists. It is English, and it is the language of science and philosophy in this broken age.
I will concede that German would be as useful, and Latin more so. Chinese has a problem with its writing which makes it harder to express new thoughts.
Arguing from this current year or not in this country is to argue from a position of relativism. It accepts that the Muslims who murdered Sufis this week are correct. it accepts the pre-Christian morality of utu and slavery. But we do not. For we have a duty in this world to act truly.
To hold to the true morality, and not the false: to shun virtue signals and be righteous.
Objective morality is a fatal problem with atheism. Once they throw it out, they have no answer to “But what if you don’t get caught?”