Underlying the idea that we have no right to judge the beliefs and moral standards of others is another widely held belief. It's the dogma that truth and morality are relative—the conviction that there are no universal spiritual truths and no universal moral standards. In other words, in the spiritual and moral realms, two diametrically opposing viewpoints or standards can both be true at the same time. Yet this is an idea that is accepted nowhere else. Only in the moral and spiritual realm do we buy such nonsense. Imagine an engineering student arguing that his calculations don't matter as
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