personally

Thoughts after listening "The basis for truth", impactful:

Why is it that the religious man is seen as prejudiced while the non-religious man is seen as objective?


pluralism may be a good thing but if it is extrapolated into meaning/moral relevatism then your are on the edge of destruction

Contradiction is to reason is to Sin is to life,
if life is embedded in sin, life breaks down
if the arguement is embedded in contradictory, the arguement breaks down.


by rebelling in everything, the person has lost his right to rebel against anything.

- post modernism brings along relativsim, nothing is absolute, things that are, are rebelled against to prove a point.

the tragedy of disbelieving in God, is not that a person ends up believing in nothing but alas it is much worse, that person may end up believing in anything

- when we don't (or choose not to) believe in something, we will be ultimately believe in something else (or to the preffered)

In the pursuit for reason and logic.

Immanual Kant:
"We can, unconfronted by God, use reason by which we may arrive at a moral basis
it will lift us there, secure us there."

How recognizable, how familiar to us, is the man so beautifully Portrayed in the Grundlegung. who confronted even with Christ turns away to consider the judgment of his own conscience and to hear the voice of his own reason. stripped of the exiguous metaphysical background which Kant was prepared to allow him, this man is with us still. free, independent, lonely, powerful, rational, responsible, brave, the hero of so many novels and books of moral philosophy. The raison d'être of this attractive but misleading creature is not far to seek. He is the offspring of the age of science, confidently rational and yet increasingly aware of his alienation from the material universe which his discoveries reveal: and since he is nor a Hegelian (Kant, not Hegel, has provided western ethics with its dominating image) his alienation is without cure. He is the ideal citizen of the liberal state, a warning held up to tyrants. He has the virtue which the age requires and admires, courage. It is not such a very long step from Kant to Nietzsche, and from Nietzsche to existentialism and the Anglo-Saxon ethical doctrines which in some ways closely resemble it. In fact Kant’s man had already received a glorious incarnation nearly a century earlier in the work of Milton: his proper name is Lucifer. 
- Murdoch

- what is reasonable/logical in a society which has no absolutes? everything become accepted as logical, relativism.

- the truth and only the truth is the greatest weapon. it is absolute. 

Knowledge is a deadly friend
When no one sets the rules.
The fate of all mankind I see
Is in the hands of fools.

Confusion will be my epitaph.
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it we can all sit back
And laugh.
But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying,