True. However, only because God has placed the natural law into each man’s heart. Once natural law is abandoned, as it has been, then man is without a moral compass. This is the beginning of relativism. Once relativism is rooted, buh-bye morality. Your only hope then is a good old fashioned revival.
I, for one, believe firmly in the existence of a natural law - even though I do not believe in God. I simply see the natural law as inherent in the *natures of things themselves*. These natures were always there and did not have to be "conferred" upon things or upon people by any entity, human or divine.
I think it is quite possible to have natural law without God, and part of the aim of this essay has been to establish some foundations of such a natural law in ethics.
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G. Stolyarov II