we have,indeed, gone from "God will tell us what is morally right!" to "We will discover what is morally right ourselves!" to "There's no such thing as morally right!" but the move from the middle stage to the latter hasn't been a regression backwards, but a step forwards in understanding of what "morally right" means.
Basically - those people who turn to religion for moral answers aren't postmodern - they're premodern.
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Date: 2005-12-01 04:18 pm (UTC)Basically - those people who turn to religion for moral answers aren't postmodern - they're premodern.