A Blog by Chester Delagneau

Kirk was a realist when it came to ethics. As a moral realist, he believed that objective moral truths exist independently of our beliefs about them, rejecting moral relativism. And it was this hard stance about right and wrong behavior, grounded in the character of God, that his intellectual opponents hated about him.

“Ultimately, it’s not whether ‘God is dead.’ But whether a good God is dead.”

I was inspired by Steinbeck’s East of Eden to write this flash fiction. Caleb waits in the shadows. Murder is on his heart. Aaron won’t go as far as premeditated murder but he has no problem beating up an old man and taking back the money he lost in tonight’s poker game. The old man,…