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Secular Humanism

Moral values derive their source from human experience.

To say that moral values come from human experience is to say that, as our experiences change, moral values change. As we grow and learn we may find that what we thought was wrong last week, is not wrong after all.

To say the moral values come from human experience is to say that, because human experience is different in different cultures, moral values are also different in different cultures. While in one culture it may be morally right to give to the poor, in another culture it might be morally right to steal from the poor--after all they are weak and contribute nothing to society.

To say that moral values come from human experience is to say that, because individual people have different experiences, moral values vary from one person to another.

All of this says:

There are no absolute moral values, what is wrong for you may not be wrong for me.

In other words, everyone does what seems to be right in their own eyes.

How can we then condemn Hitler for judging the value of a Jewish life to be worthless?

Because there is no absolute value system, we can never know what is right and wrong. If moral values are based on human experience, there are no moral values. Our moral values become whatever television, or a powerful speaker (such as Hitler), convinces us are the correct moral values of the day.

God, on the other hand, tells us there is absolute good and abosulte evil, that is patterned on the character of God himself. God is the absolute standard against which everything else is judged. There is no uncertainty about what is morally right or wrong. And just as God never changes, what is morally right or wrong never changes.

It is always right to give to the poor and help those who are less fortunate than you.

It is always morally wrong to murder another person.