(February 25, 2016 at 3:02 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Objective morality has been discussed many times on these forums, and many times by me. A lot of times I feel like I have a hard time trying to explain objective morality or why objective morality makes sense to me, which in turn helps make the existence of a god make sense to me. It isn't the only reason by far, but it is part of it.
I saw this short video today and thought Kreeft summed up all my thoughts in a way that I never felt I could accurately do.
I don't agree with the part where he says people "think they are atheists", but as for his explanation of morality, I couldn't have put it better myself.
https://www.prageru.com/courses/religion...-evil-come
Whether you agree or not, it's still an interesting issue to discuss.
Oh, right...
- if morality was all left to the individual to decide on, then the world would all be full of sociopaths, and then we'd have to build prisons to house them all.
- Oh, wait, there's at least 1% of the US population behind bars, and
- Not one of them has religious faith or tries to follow the teachings of their religious doctrines.
- Amazingly, the overwhelming majority of us aren't criminal convicts nor ex-cons, despite what we do or do not believe.
- Relatively very few atheists are part of the criminal population.
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