People get attached to things, to ideas. It makes them feel comfortable to think they know something. To use JuveRev's example I used to be attached to this absolute morality idea and I was basically looking for justification as to why and how we can support the idea. As I told JuveRev, eventually I decided that there just isn't evidence for that, and I had to reluctantly give it up. But for me it had nothing to do with god, which is I why I think it's a lot harder for him to give it up.
If JuveRev was purely motivated by the search for truth then in the last few days alone there have been enough arguments given to change his mind. But he hasn't budged one centimeter. And if you look at his arguments, they are not evidence for his claim, they are "warnings" about "look what would happen if it wasn't true". So it's obvious he has this idea in his mind and he's trying very hard to find support for it.
So this is part of our psychology. And while I agree that it retards us, preventing us from learning, it's also in some sense a way to keep our sanity. Because just imagine what would happen if everyday you found new evidence that would change your mind. You would be confused about who you are and what you believe, it would be quite unpleasant.
I am positively sure that at the moment neither one of us knows for certain which type of morality exists in our world today(objective or subjective). Perhaps you clinging on to certain beliefs that will help you make sense of the world is just a natural part of our psychology. I know I have a lot to learn before I can conclusively be certain of the opinions I presented on this forum and back them up with undeniable evidence. I do know that there are a few theists in the world who have been at it a much longer time than I have and can certainly be of much more insight.
But here's what I truly think. I believe we can look at morality any way we like, we can speculate it is subjective as it would make sense in today's modern world, but something tells me that deep down inside we all know, whether we like it or not, that there is an absolute truth, that somethings are just truly 'wrong'.
I simply cannot imagine a world where this is not the case. Simply because if every single legal system in the world permitted child rape, I would always know in my heart that it is 'wrong' independant of culture or time. This may be just my naivety speaking here, but that's just how I view things for now.
And to be quite honest, neither you or Seven have done a very convincing job of presenting a case for subjective morality. You musn't blame me if I hadn't changed my views because I really haven't been given any argument that will prove me wrong.
I asked you this question yesterday, and I think I have to rephrase it a little for it to make sense. This is what really perplexes me, how can subjective morality be right when indeed it states that nothing is actually 'right?
No, but it can erode it piece by piece. So that of all the things you believed in some coherent system half have been proven wrong and the other half are just plain confusing as to what they mean anymore.
The thing is that we have this need to unify our ideas, so a fact that doesn't fit with the grand philosophy is likely to be ignored. So let's say that you're a Christian and all through your life you've been going to church and heard certain claims. Now you realize that (for example) evolution completely contradicts the creation account from the bible, so from now on your conviction is "Bible - creation story + evolution". But that inevitably casts doubt over the whole higher power idea as a whole, because if the bible is the word of god and part of it is plain wrong..
Well you can see where that is going.
I would reach the same conclusions if I were you, however, there are a few vital facts you seem to be overlooking here. Prior to discoveries of evolution that have opposed creationism, there were outspoken Christian leaders whom, despite being completely uninformed of the evolution theory, were passionately opposed to taking Genesis literally.
These people understood even before profound scientific discoveries were made taht opposed classical Christian views, that the Bible as I have mentioned before was never meant to be viewed as a speculative book but rather a practical book.