Euthyphro dilemma

[Kernel Sohcahtoa]

And she claims not to be a nihilist.  

The refusal to imagine the cosmos as animated and infused with objective values is a very long way from not having very strong values oneself.  Did you mean to deliberately misrepresent her position?  People who can only feel justified so long as everyone agrees there is no alternative as righteous as their own are themselves morally deficient.

I find it interesting when a member a particular theistic starting point assumes that people who are of a non-theistic starting point are nihilists because they lack an "objective basis for morality"[1].  From my observations, the objective morality purported by theists rests on the following assumptions: the existence of a supernatural world; a deity who exists in this supernatural world and whose morality is the objective basis of this supernatural world; supernatural morality is connected to the natural world around us.  Now, since none of these assumptions have been conclusively proven, then this "objective basis" for supernatural morality is ultimately in the unproven category, and therefore, regardless of their faith in a supernatural morality, theists have not escaped the problem of  subjective moral dilemmas. 

[1] P.S. Since an objective basis for supernatural morality has not been conclusively proven, then why is it not equally valid for a practitioner of a secular moral system to refer to a practitioner of a supernatural moral system as a nihilist? If people can be ethical and humane to themselves and to each other and live meaningful and valuable lives via different moral/ethical systems, then why not establish methods of  co-existence aimed at understanding each other, rather than finding new ways to judge, label, and divide our species?