There is an interesting blog and response series over at Big Hollywood concerning the mores of the Hollywood crowd. I read only a portion of the debate attached to the article, but what I read seems typical of the Atheist attitude and logic. Read it for yourself, if you are curious.
One responder identifies the self-contradiction of Atheism and its necessary offspring, relativism: If an Atheist claims a morality as his absolute guide for behavior, why don't all Atheists subscribe to it? Atheism is ethically relativistic by its very nature.
Can an Atheist condemn the behavior of anyone, if all behavior is ethically relativistic? If evolution is the only truth, and is the overarching science of the universe (physics being a subordinate science, as Atheists elsewhere have claimed), then any ethic derived from science is based on the preservation of the unguided evolutionary path, meaning untrammelled, unrestricted competition for survival of ones genes as the environment requires, and especially as it changes.
Atheists who reject this are touting a non-scientific, relativistic morality that is either self-derived, or adapted from existing religio-ethics.
For Atheists to claim an ethical, even moral behavior is a denial of both the absolute nature of real morals, and the necessarily relativistic nature of Atheism. Relativism excludes absolutes. But denials of this sort fit snugly into relativism, and Atheists are comfortable with them.
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