DISQUS

Oh, Marcus I didn't take any offense.

I just wanted to clarify my point.

I don't believe we can satisfy the human desire for something greater but I believe we can present someone greater.

Absolute certainty of the type that satisfies doesn't come all at once. At least it didn't happen that way for me.

I'd be surprised if Steve Eley was a Christian. I've often encountered his quote in the mouth of atheists:
"Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them."

I believe it's from alt.atheism on usenet.

I don't think relativism is necessarily naive.

I think it's naive to offer relativism to anyone who's asking serious questions expecting meaningful answers.
The human desire for something greater than ourselves seems unlikely to be satisfied by guiding someone to subjective answers. That should be obvious even to a relativist.