Hello From Calgary Alberta, Canada

[SMG.]

Hello Everyone!

 

So glad to be here. My name is Scott and I have a passion for defining and fighting evil! Just last year I would have defined myself, and virtue itself by Christianity. I thought this way because I didn't think morality could exist secularly and I didn't want to live in a world with no true principles. I had heard different moral theories that attempted to show how morality "could" exist separately from the religious. These theories from atheists from Sam Harris and others who proposed theories that I believed to be invalid. I had previously and regularly taught bible studies and remembered thinking if ever a secular theory could be put forward that could be shown to be logically true then religion would be meaningless and what I believed would be in trouble. My comfort came from thinking this could never happen. I stumbled on to FDR through a Youtube link and heard Stef give his comments about the economy that seemed clear and poignant. I didn't know what philosophy was at the time but thought of what it revealed as "nuggets of truth". It was on this path that I came upon "UPB: A Defence of Secular Ethics" and it felt like a knife in the gut. It felt that way because it was valid, and more so explained why university professors and other "empiricists" who did not recognize any ethical responsibilities did not wish to recognize its validity. Since then all my relationships have changed and I have no real friends, more so aquanitnces. I do not hang out or really converse with the same people, accept for a few that I am now in heavy discussions with UPB. 

 

Anyway, now that a huge paradigm shift has happened in my life I am looking forward to getting to know people here and base my interactions and relationships on rational level where I can have real conversations.

[Kevin Beal]

Welcome Scott!

 

I'm sorry to hear your transition was painful however necessary.

 

That is what I kinda like about christians is the commitment to some kind of principles. I got a whole lot of relativistic crap growing up, but fortunately grew up without religion, so you're upbringing sounds very different from mine.

 

It's interesting to me that you were more committed to principles than to religion. Does that mean that you didn't really believe in the existence of gods?

 

Have you experienced a lot of moral relativism? What is your experience of that?