Bishop Nick Knisely: Religion
There are in principle Universal Truths, but scientifically speaking at least, we don't seem to be able to exactly express them. And so universal truth has become essentially a matter of faith scientifically and experimentally speaking. We want it to exist so that all the wonderful work done by the classical Greek schools of philosophy will still be relevant. But it doesn't and they aren't - at least not in the way they were to people in the time of Newton and the other giants of scientific determinism.
That shift landed us in the world of the post-modern. But post-modernism has its own sets of problems. It becomes impossible to speak of universal meaning anymore. Things become rapidly reductionist and personal. And that is making it harder and harder to find values that a large group of people can agree to. Which is in turn making it harder and harder to create the sort of broad participation in the kinds of structures that make society and common good possible. People will choose the morals they like, persecute the people they don't, and will be moving inexorably into the dead-end of a intellectual echo-chamber that threatens to undermine any attempt to back out of it.
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