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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
And in my viewpoint that is the only way morality can be meaningful at all. God could lay down laws which are absurd, he could ask me to sacrifice my first-born son, but it is only in recognizing my own limits and subjugation that morality can actually "tell" me to do something.
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The error in your argument is that you assume we need God as a means of "grounding" our sense of morality, as if without God we would know no limits and have no way of judging our own morality. However, there are no perfectly straight lines in reality, and yet most human beings I know are quite capable of judging the straightness of lines that we do observe. They can even tell you which line is straighter than the other, and they don't need to see an absolutely straight line in order to do so. Human beings
are able to judge degrees of things, even if perfect examples (i.e.: God) do not exist.