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By What Authority? Determining the Objectivity of Secular Values.

I remember visiting a person and discussing the moral implications of abortion. My interlocutor held the position that abortion ought to be legal because a child is not considered to be living until the child is outside the mother’s womb.

So I proceeded to ask who has the authority to decide when a human person is to be considered a human person. Thinking for a moment he responded by saying it’s simply the secular law. “So, who is the lawgiver or law creator then? And by what authority does the lawgiver decide that a law is objectively just?” I asked. He responded “It just is?” What an odd answer.

The Crux of the Matter

I wish to discuss 2 questions in brief:

  1. What is secularity?
  2. Are secular values objectively always true and what is the standard by which we decide if they’re true?

Let’s start with the first question.

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Coutesy of Unsplash.com by Claire Anderson

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