Argument from Conscience

[Angrboda]

I think the reason you get no responses to the question of what theists would do if God announced a reversal of morality is because it exposes the fact that a God based morality is just as open to arbitrariness and whim as they suggest relative morality is. It puts this "objective morality" on the same footing as relative morality from the position of absolutes, and the theist can't risk exposing that truth.

Theists claim we need morality to be objective for it to work. Unfortunately none of them can tell us how to determine what is objectively moral without falling back on the undesirable foundation of subjective opinion. One group says the bible, another only the new testament, a third the Quran, and among those there are innumerable subjective interpretations of what that means. So, ultimately, the theist is left with subjective opinion, whether they postulate that there exists an objective morality or not. An objective morality that is inaccessible is no better than no morality at all. Fortunately we do have social processes which coalesce around general standards of morality. I agree that it would be nice to have an objective moral standard. But we don't have that, even if one exists in some inaccessible, far off realm - it's not here today. We have no alternative but to work from subjective opinions of morality which are shaped into systems of justice by political processes.