Worldview And Ethical Analysis

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In my Worldview and Apologetics class, Professor Camp allowed us to participate in a debate-like senario with our small groups. I was teamed with Taylor and Eric. In our scenario Eric and I were the non believers and Taylor was the believer. We chose the the scenario number three. Which was the one of the Relativist. My character believes that there is no such thing as absolute truth. Also I believe what you want to believe and I will believe what I want to believe. I also believe that we all have a different path but will end up in the same place. It was Taylors job to try and help change our beliefs, through showing us the flaws in our beliefs.

When we first got together, we decided that we would do our debate-like scenario as if we were

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