Never accept ultimatums conventional wisdom or absolutes.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.