(June 1, 2016 at 10:02 pm)Light of Truth Wrote: I'm not saying one must believe in God to be moral; I'm merely saying that without God there can be no basis for objective morality. All that is possible apart from God would be subjective morality and nihilism.
Religion is a-moral. Morality does not come from religion. I assume you only follow some of the commandments in the Bible? I assume you don't stone adulterers and burn witches? How do you decide which parts of the Bible you follow and which you discard and ignore? By using your own innate morality!
If you didn't already have innate morality, you would just follow all of the biblical laws like a psychopathic robot. Religious morality is not moral. You don't do good things because they are good, you do them because you are afraid of the torture of hell and/or desire the bliss of heaven.
Reading from your Bible, God has instructed slavery, genocide, child sacrifice, witch burning, the death penalty for adultery and homosexuality, and all manner of other barbaric and horrifically immoral actions. You're saying we get morality from that guy?
