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Interesting blog post referring to the Virginia Tech Massacre. It covers topics such as morality and religion and it criticises ideas about an absolute system of morality, and the validity of religion therein, referring to biblical morality as “superfluous.” It’s hard to tell if the author believes in God or not, but that isn’t important.

I just find it hard to believe that we, humans, are it – the ultimate beings. Morality must relate to some sort of idea of truth. I’d like to believe in a spherical kind of truth which is represented by the many religions and also by their scriptures. By this, I mean a “truth” that has many sides and many faces that allow us to focus in our lives and live with good intentions; and in the end, have decent values. One massive problem is that all these terms – values, good intentions, good, bad, etc – become very ambiguous. What are good values? How does one judge good intentions anyway? What are good and bad? Everyone has their own ideas on such things – they are conditioned differently, their lives are different, their religions, their attitudes and so on. I guess, that’s why things like the bible exist, and why they are accepted by so many – because many, need to be told what these ambiguous values and terms “really” mean. So then, we have a struggle between religions and views, which then spread into every crevice of society. (more…)