Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Ethics and Faith

Should how we act be influenced in any way by faith? If so, how so? Who's faith exactly? Will any faith work, or is there a "right way to walk?" Are we to take serious a claim to action that grounds itself in someone's belief? For example, that homosexuality is "wrong." Or that abortion is murder?

Should not our ethics, or common morality if you will, be supported by more than mere faith? If we assent, however, upon what do we then ground our ethics? Must not any ground involve some degree of faith? At what point does fact fade to faith, and how can we know when we have crossed the line?

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