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Those who believe morality is relative to the individual or believes that morality is just an illusion...what are your arguments against this individual? How would you handle this situation?
That is why atheism and practical atheism in the West, won't have the longevity of worldviews like Islam that at least try to provide a metaphysical and epistemological foundation for morality, although the wrong one.
That is why atheism and practical atheism in the West, won't have the longevity of worldviews like Islam that at least try to provide a metaphysical and epistemological foundation for morality, although the wrong one.
Look at how quickly the French Revolution unravelled with its emphasis on the goddess of (finite, fallen and fallible) human reason.
Well, look at Communism. An atheist "full-orbed" worldview that came about in the nineteenth century. It's already in a bad state of repair. E.g. Islam, on the other hand has lasted for 1,400 years.
Fascism wasn't explicitly atheist and took different forms in different countries, but along with other Enlightenment-style solutions, it put a lot of store in man's finite, fallen and fallible interpretation of general revelation, and little or no store in regenerate man's interpretation of general revelation by special revelation. Fascism is not doing very well today.
When Man (or individual men) is made the measure of all things, including ethics, society has made a more obvious blunder in its reasoning than those who hold to a false god(s)/God(s).
Our own Western Secular Humanist democratic societies are a slower outworking of the Enlightenment folly that Man is the measure of all things including ethics. But they have the seeds of their own destruction in them close to the surface. They aren't going to last for 1,400 years or anything near it.
Or, just wait until they make a normative statement.