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Why is morality not necessarily tied to culture?
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Different cultures have views on what is moral
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Culture constantly changes. Morality is based on believes and conscience or moral awareness. These should not change due to today’s society.
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Morality cannot be tied to culture because cultures change. If cultures change, then what is good today may be bad tomorrow or vice versa. Additionally, one culture’s morals may be opposite of another’s cultures, so who can say that culture determines morality? An absolute moral standard is never secured if a culture determines morality.
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Culture can be changing, the beliefs, systems, practices put into place, but morality is the higher law that we are holding ourselves as a community of peoples to which usually includes the same basic foundation of murder is wrong, etc. The Ted Bundy quote was a great proof that believing in a relativism, or a higher moral power, does not contribute to a society/culture that we want ..to be/developed into. Remembering what one culture believed and practiced at one time doesn’t necessarily hold true today and that the diversity of cultures on a basic level of morality do not diverge all that much, all still believing in an objective moral truth.
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Because God is the source, the standard, and who determines what is good and mainly He does not change.