Charles Taylor argues that modern secular society faces a fundamental contradiction: while rejecting the concept of a divine lawgiver, it still attempts to maintain moral categories of right and wrong, yet in doing so, it has inadvertently abolished the very conditions that give moral judgments their meaningfulness and objective basis.
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The Contradiction Atheists Can't AnswerAdded:
How can you on the one hand reject the concept of good and evil and say it doesn't exist and at the same time be very very vocal in your condemnation of what you perceive to be the problem of evil.
Charles Taylor, the brilliant author of this secular age, says this.
The modern age, more or less repudiating the idea of a divine lawgiver, >> [clears throat] >> has nevertheless tried to retain the ideas of moral right and wrong.
Not noticing that in casting God aside, they've also abolished the conditions of meaningfulness for moral right and wrong as well.
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