If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean that which applies, that which always applies, that which provides a final or ultimate standard. There must be an absolute if there are to be morals, and there must be an absolute if there are to be real values. If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is not final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.
Francis A. Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live?, p.145
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