Let me see, <<duh>> I will use the police to enforce my proposed ethical plan. I will insist that all persons are equal under the laws, and that none be given any special treatment. As all ethical plans are the product of human effort and intelligence, and must change to meet changing conditions, I provide that laws may be changed when the community decides this is desirable. As there are certain priciples that are held to be so important that they should never be violated, I will put them in a constitution and specify that they cannot be changed.
The basic ethical plan is that a person can do anything that does not harm another. In dealing with others, we should always try to minimize harm and maximize benefit. As a practical matter, we find it is better to prohibit malevolent actions than to try to force people to do benevolent actions.
Would you please be explicit about your claim that the god has revealed an unchanging eternal set of moral guidelines. What are some of these so-called laws that have never changed? You have made many statements using the words "moral absolutes" without specifying a single one that I remember. Perhaps if you gave an example of an unchanging moral absolute with no exceptions to it, we would know what the hell you were babbling about.
While you are at it, please demonstrate conclusively that you presuppositions, (deciding to believe in the bible, accepting its declaration that it is the word of god) are not arbitrary. Or is it that you do not have rational presuppositions, but only irrational ones?
-- "Mankind shall not be free until the last king is strangled in the entrails of the last priest." Diderot <<Dithyrambe sur la fete des rois>> Greg Erwin: ai815@freenet.Carleton.ca VP, Humanist Association of Canada godfree@magi.com "Ask me about excommunication"