My journey of deconstruction has led me to the conclusion that there is no objective truth. Concepts such as morality, natural law, divine law, and human rights are not of metaphysical origin: they are creations of the human mind. We may choose to to live a life of love, of kindness, of humility, of caring. We my choose to support and campaign for concepts of human rights and social justice. However, we should not delude ourselves into believing that such concepts are the creation of an objective agency external to humanity. The temptation is to cloak such concepts with a veneer of objectivity or universality: of being god given, or an element of a natural order.
What matters are the choices we make. My choice is to try to follow and promote the concepts of love and justice attributed to Jesus. It doesn't matter who Jesus was, it is the ideas ascribed to him that matter.
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