C.S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity

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What matters to a person depends on their upbringing, their life experience, the people around them, their insights and perspectives, and their hopes [and fears] for the future. For many people, their religious beliefs ~ and all the personal certainties and aspirations that they give rise to ~ have a bearing on what they believe matters.

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For something to matter independently or irrespective of someone’s religious beliefs it needs to hinge on an absolute truth that transcends mere belief. Some people may believe family matters, for example, while others may not. And if truth is relative someone who does not believe family matters would not be wrong in their belief. But for family to matter independently or irrespectively of whether someone believes it or not it would require it to hinge on an absolute truth that transcends human belief.

So within a context of relative truth how could you say that someone who does not believe that family, health, love, environment, climate, social welfare etc matters is wrong?

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Within a framework of relative truth where logic no longer applies and anything is possible there’s no point in me disagreeing with you because you can just continue to shift the goal posts.

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You just said there are an abundance of things that matter independently and irrespectively of what religion one is. Is this true for everyone or just for you?

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Within a framework of relative truth logic no longer applies because two contradictory statements can both be true for different people.

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Lets use this example: imagine person A is of the opinion that Jesus died on the cross and person B is of the opinion that Jesus didn’t die on the cross. Logically speaking can both their opinions be true? Clearly not.

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Ultimately, if truth is relative, all opinions on what matters and what doesn’t matter are neither true nor false.