God & Morality
A favorite goal-attempt by theists against atheists is to argue that without God we could have no morality. That, in fact, is an own goal. How so? Right off the bat (to mix metaphors), even if the point were true, it wouldn't prove God's existence. The most it would do is show that if we want a moral society, we'd better persuade a whole lot of the people to that believe God exists. When atheists see things that way, it's call a "noble lie." But that's not what the theist intends, I presume. More fundamentally, the claim is just wrong. God is not needed for morality. I'll make just one point here. What is God's supposed relationship to morality, good and bad, right and wrong? Does God make it up as he goes along, or does God discover morality? Bertrand Russell had a go at this question in 1927 in "Why I Am Not a Christian." Russell wrote: If you are quite sure there is a difference between right and wrong, you are then in this situation