“I disagree, but that’s just my opinion.”

I don’t really disagree, but isn’t the person who says “everyone’s entitled to their own opinion” asserting that this maxim is true for everyone, when based on their thinking, only they should be entitled to their own opinion because that’s their opinion.

How much easier it is to admit truth.

For example, a Christian attempts to pray for the food of everyone seated around a table at a restaurant, but not everyone is a Christian, nor is everyone comfortable with prayer. It is verbally proffered that the one offering to pray for everyone’s food simply pray to himself in place of having everyone stop to pray. Additionally, it is interjected, “Yeh, keep that shit to yourself.”

Fair enough, if you believe that one should not pray for other’s food at a restaurant, then say that you think that’s wrong and admit that there is such a thing as wrong. The contranatural inconsistency reveals itself in the interjection when the one objecting also holds to moral relativism. For, surely, if the Christian wants to pray for everyone’s food, his belief should be respected and not rejected in order to be consistent with moral relativism. Moral relativism is betrayed in the interjection.

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Here is the creed for the modern thinker. We believe in Marx, Freud and Darwin. We believe everything is okay, as long as you don’t hurt anyone to the best of your definition of hurt and to your best definition of knowledge. We believe in sex before, during and after marriage. We believe in the therapy of sin. We believe that adultery is fun. We believe that sodomy is okay. We believe that taboos are taboo. We believe that everything is getting better despite evidence to the contrary. The evidence must be investigated and you can prove anything with evidence. We believe there is something in horoscopes, UFO’s, and bent spoons. Jesus was a good man just like Buddha, Mohammad and ourselves. He was a good moral teacher, although we think basically his good morals were really bad. We believe that all religions are the basically the same, at least the ones we read were. They all believe in love and goodness. They only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God and salvation. We believe that after death comes nothing because when you ask the dead what happens they say nothing. If death is not the end, and if the dead have lied, then it’s compulsively heaven for all except perhaps Hitler, Stalin and Genghis Khan. We believe in Masters and Johnson. What is selected is average, what’s average is normal, and what’s normal is good. We believe in total disarmament. We believe there are direct links between warfare and bloodshed. Americans should beat their guns into tractors and the Russians would be sure to follow. We believe that man is essentially good-it’s only his behavior that lets him down. This is the fault of society; society’s the fault of condition; and conditions are the fault of society. We believe that each man must find the truth that is right for him and reality will adapt accordingly; the universe will readjust and history will alter. We believe that there is no absolute truth, except the truth that there is no absolute truth. We believe in the rejection of creeds and the flowering of individual thought.

If Chance be the Father of all flesh, disaster is His rainbow in the sky. And when you hear: “State of Emergency,” “Sniper Kills Ten,” “Troops on Rampage,” “Youths go Looting,” “Bomb Blasts School,” it is but the sound man worshipping his maker.