Approval and Condemnation: Must they be based on Morality?

[Gordon Fitch]

Carrol Cox:
> ... 
> This assumption that any word of approbation or approval is necessarily
> a moral proposition referring to a "moral order" is merely itself a
> manifestation of the power of moralism. But while Gordon (on lbo-talk)
> was probably being facetious in his references to god in his response,
> he should have been deadly serious.  ...

On the contrary, I was quite serious, although possibly not
quite deadly (enough).

For some reason, human beings, needing God, are born into a
world in which God is materially absent.  Therefore, they must
find or create God (or the gods, or Nature, or reality -- 
Nietzche's God-in-the-grammar).

Hence this contradiction: almost everyone says there is a
moral order, or acts as if one exists, but nobody can agree
on its contents or point out a material basis for its existence
and features.  We have no choice but to gesticulate and insist
that the shadows we produce are revealing the walls of a mighty
edifice.