In short, the answer to your question is "No." There's absolutely no way we can have "" be something so generic that everyone can agree on it. Everyone is invested in their ideologies.
The entire argument offered in my last post was preconditioned on acceptance of the fundamental premise of the God-of-the-Bible existing and really being as portrayed in the pages of the book, and the picture of man's fallen nature being correct.
If that's not true, then we get back to the debate about the existence or absence of a creator-being; if existent then what is that being's nature and requirements; if absent then what guides our behavior and our world? Either way, history has shown we are incapable of managing the resolution of those issues.
Note: A critical component of that last assertion is that we have not, in fact, truly employed what God offers to live in harmony with each other and him. I hold that we have not. That point is open to debate. And if one asserts that we have and what we have seen is in fact the will and desire of God, then there are many thorny theological issues to work out.
But if true, then the answer is precisely what is true. And there can't be a diminishment of it because that eliminates the source of the solution.
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