There’s no such thing as right or wrong. Anyone who tells you otherwise is forcing their opinion on you. Something that is right to one person could be completely wrong to another. For instance, take the issue of abortion. Many feel it is the right thing to do in certain situations, while many feel it's the wrong choice in every situation.
Right and wrong are subjective values we all have, subject to change through the course of our lives. They are relative terms, different for each person, fluid like our changing knowledge. What information we gather as we get older, and what information we lose, creates a sort of river that deposits our thoughts on random shores, while picking up others to carry them along. This creates an atmosphere of volatility for all individuals, whose concepts of right and wrong are never set in stone, even among the most stubborn people.
A man who tells you that you’ll burn in hell for eternity for having sex before marriage hasn’t the slightest idea that he’s projecting his own version of right and wrong on you, not God’s. God itself is a subjective idea that means something different to everyone. One man’s God may not be the same as another’s, even if they share the same religion, for the projection of personal values onto their God mutates it into something more distinct. In a sense, there are billions of Gods- one for each projection that all people have. Polytheistic religions can even multiply the effect. That’s why many classical myths have multiple interpretations. Gods are like works of art that are open to different viewpoints, reflecting the values of people depending on how they are imagined.
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