Originally posted by KellyJay
If isn't based on anything than it can be anything. Right now people in higher education
can no longer tell boys from girls. If there are no absolutes than whatever comes down
the pipe will do until something else gets flushed our way.
I'm not defending it, I'm just trying to explain it.
For the secular humanist, there is no right and wrong aside from what they perceive to be beneficial or not beneficial. For the secular humanist, it is beneficial to give gays their marriage rights and transgenders their bathroom rights etc. So it all boils down to perceived personal benefit that is ever changing. As a result, right and wrong is forever changing for the secular humanist. History is a testament to that.
For those of faith, however, they prescribe to a higher power, so that even though they may not perceive a benefit to following a particular morality, they still follow that morality believing that in the end we will benefit.
What gets complicated, however, is when people interpret God's morality to benefit themselves.