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I am religious. I was not trying to get at anything in regards to you anons, although I suspect that there is something neurotic underpinning some of my leftist friends' convictions, I do admit it.
I don't think that you necessarily need God for objective morality nor do I think belief in God is incompatible with leftism per se. For the record, I don't see anything wrong with being a leftist, and I am even sympathetic to reformist views of society's progression towards socialism. However, I do think that there is some contradiction in the fact that these leftist friends simultaneously have extremely passionate convictions about what people are doing and injustice taking place in our society and so forth while simultaneously apparently conceding that there is no such thing as right and wrong.
>I wouldn't call it back tracking because saying that there isn't "objective" morality isn't the same as saying there isn't any morality.
On this point I suppose we disagree. Yes, saying that morality is subjective is technically different from saying that it doesn't exist at all, but what "morality" is if subjective is fundamentally different from what it is if objective. The fact would remain that it is, for example, a mere matter of opinion that the Nazis were evil, in particular if you find yourself in a majority Nazi society.