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  • Morality: Who Needs God?

    02/26/2003 7:19:40 AM PST · by Nix 2 · 491 replies · 745+ views
    AISH ^ | N/A | by Rabbi Nechemia Coopersmith
    If there is an absolute standard of morality, then there must be a God. Disagree? Consider the alternative. God's existence has direct bearing on how we view morality. As Dostoyevsky so famously put it, "Without God, everything is permitted."At first glance, this statement may not make sense. Everything is permitted? Can't there be a morality without an infinite God?Perhaps some of the confusion is due to a murky definition of morality we owe to moral relativism. Moral relativism maintains that there is no objective standard of right and wrong existing separate and independent from humanity. The creation of moral...