Randall Rathbun asks if objective truth can be found

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Both Silas Matson and Rev. Kate Lore need to be asked a simple question. Are all moral viewpoints valid, or does an objective moral viewpoint exist?

Randall Rathbun

We don’t teach that 2+2 = 5, as that is incorrect. So the basic question is this? Are all religious viewpoints relative and equally valid? Or can objective truth be found?

This assumes that it exists, in the same way that 2+2 = 4. I would like to hear what they have to say?

Randall Rathbun
Vancouver

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