I’ve argued with atheists about morality. Their take is that morality comes basically from a group consensus. When I point out that group consensus changes and that eventually it could change to say that rape is okay against certain people. They immediately deny it and then I point out that many Muslims believe that it is okay to rape and kill non-Muslims and they are rapidly taking over Europe.
I also point out that the belief in no higher power in the afterlife or no afterlife at all leads many to go against conventional morality and decide that they can do anything they think they can get away with. After all, if Christians are forbidden to impose God’s morality on them, who are they to impose their morality on someone else?
>>I’ve argued with atheists about morality. Their take is that morality comes basically from a group consensus. When I point out that group consensus changes and that eventually it could change to say that rape is okay against certain people. They immediately deny it and then I point out that many Muslims believe that it is okay to rape and kill non-Muslims and they are rapidly taking over Europe.
That is the fundamental problem with all the Humanist worldviews: the source of morality is men, and in some cases, men decide that the universe is so neutral that there can be no morality. There just is now with no past or future.
The next problem is the non-Christian theistic worldview: the source of morality is a set of laws and a balance of some sort. Even Judaism is wrong in light of the “new” information obtained 200 years ago.
America’s source of greatness was the Christian worldview. It is the only thing that made our freedom viable. Our Constitutional freedoms are a horrible thing in the absence of Christ because they become the freedom to be depraved.