Take a look at this post and follow the conversation that results. Now that's scary.
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He immediately went off on the “societal contract” tangent. You know, Hitler was supported by the vast majority as well. Seriously, what you end up is mob rule. If the mob in Rome today thinks it’s acceptable to stone Christians or feed them to lions, so be it. Who says it’s wrong?
In the absence of God you have no morals, you have ethics. Ethics as taught in American academia is the study of right and wrong having purged all religious facets. It’s an attempt to teach social taboos and standards of behavior in a multicultural setting where it’s considered intellectual to be secular. It is not without coincidence that the discussion of morals usually includes the word “God,” while the discussion of “ethics” does not. It is not coincidence that some are taught “ethics” in mandatory training at work or can take classes in “ethics” while in school. Ethics is a meaningless term.