When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.
Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.
What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.
Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.
If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.
The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.