“….And I have begun to suspect that, in the West, science is assuming the altar once carved out for God. We have steadily replaced the absolute moral certainty of theocrats with technocratic absolutism.”
“We now live in a moral halfway house. When we face moral questions today we are deeply uncertain of how to proceed, because we have erased the baseline.
The only recourse is relativism and that means society has lost the tools necessary to have a sensible moral discussion because, apparently, all ideas are equal, even the obviously daft ones. Questions of morality now all too often become questions of fashion or utility.”
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