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In this post modern world we live in, it has become rare to run into a moral problem. The standard for morality has been abolished. So does anyone even remember the last time they had to deal with a moral dilemma? If so, what was the dilemma?
How you resolved it isn't quite as important as what the dilemma was because chances are that it wasn't even a moral dilemma to begin with; they just don't exist for most people anymore.
Why is this? Part of the reason is that people don't believe in an objective standard of morality. This, as strange as it may seem; is not confined to the secular world. Christian doctrine today is full of examples of the laws of God being done away with. This is God's standard of morality. Christians will point out that to love your neighbor as yourself is to fulfill the law, but do they do this? How many people love their neighbors as themselves? Any Christian that presumes to fulfill this mandate is sadly mistaken.
Here's an example: Mark 7:19 states: "Thus he declared all foods clean" Here we have the standard by which one distinguishes clean animals from unclean being done away with altogether. There is now nothing by which to determine one from the other. This philosophy is carried on with respect to the rest of the law. How can this be proven? By simply asking the question I've just asked and noting the lack of response. When the standard is removed there are no moral dilemmas.
How you resolved it isn't quite as important as what the dilemma was because chances are that it wasn't even a moral dilemma to begin with; they just don't exist for most people anymore.
Why is this? Part of the reason is that people don't believe in an objective standard of morality. This, as strange as it may seem; is not confined to the secular world. Christian doctrine today is full of examples of the laws of God being done away with. This is God's standard of morality. Christians will point out that to love your neighbor as yourself is to fulfill the law, but do they do this? How many people love their neighbors as themselves? Any Christian that presumes to fulfill this mandate is sadly mistaken.
Here's an example: Mark 7:19 states: "Thus he declared all foods clean" Here we have the standard by which one distinguishes clean animals from unclean being done away with altogether. There is now nothing by which to determine one from the other. This philosophy is carried on with respect to the rest of the law. How can this be proven? By simply asking the question I've just asked and noting the lack of response. When the standard is removed there are no moral dilemmas.