It has been a good day; my first thousand word day in weeks. I think I’m starting to get back into the swing of things.. popped over to see Alan this afternoon, and apart from a howling error I had made (which can easily be corrected and used to my advantage) he was very positive.

I think I made a mistake in yesterday’s blog entry too. Well, I’d like to add a bit, at least. I was naval gazing earlier, and I realised that there is a reason for the correlation between conservatism and religiosity. It seems to me that one aspect of conservatism is the belief in the moral absolutes like right and wrong. If god doesn’t exist, then such absolutes are the constructs of man, and therefore morality is subjective. If you believe god does exist, you can appeal to a higher power – a fixed point – and therefore right and wrong are not just constructs, as in liberalism, but god-given facts. This might lead one to conclude that a belief in god would lead one to conservatism – the two seem to go hand in hand in America. A belief in god justifies a belief in moral absolutes, and vice versa – but on the other hand you could also the opposite because the god of the New Testament forgives all sins. Then again, this assumes you believe in an objective concept of sin. So I guess I’m back to where I was yesterday. I don’t think I’ve explained my thinking very well, and its giving me a head ache. Hmm…what do you reckon – is it possible for one to believe in both god and moral relativism?