No, I was brought up in an atheist household and the view in our house was that no god or gods exist.
You say that I presuppose a god. No, it seems to me that morality has certain features. One of those is that it prescribes - it instructs. Another is that those instructions have rational authority. I then began wondering what on earth could combine those features. And it occurred to me that the instructions of a god - a certain sort of god - would combine those features. And thus I concluded - conclude - tentatively, that morality requires a god.
You suggest this is an argument from ignorance. Exactly how? We know that morality instructs (for it is a conceptual truth). And we know that agents can instruct. It doesn't follow that morality must be an agent, for perhaps something else can issue instructions as well (though at the moment I find this inconceivable). But until or unless someone can suggest something else that can issue instructions, it is reasonable to conclude that morality has to be an agent of some sort. Or so it seems to me.
You say that I presuppose a god. No, it seems to me that morality has certain features. One of those is that it prescribes - it instructs. Another is that those instructions have rational authority. I then began wondering what on earth could combine those features. And it occurred to me that the instructions of a god - a certain sort of god - would combine those features. And thus I concluded - conclude - tentatively, that morality requires a god.
You suggest this is an argument from ignorance. Exactly how? We know that morality instructs (for it is a conceptual truth). And we know that agents can instruct. It doesn't follow that morality must be an agent, for perhaps something else can issue instructions as well (though at the moment I find this inconceivable). But until or unless someone can suggest something else that can issue instructions, it is reasonable to conclude that morality has to be an agent of some sort. Or so it seems to me.
