The Argument From Morality
By L. R. R.
The argument from morality is perhaps one of the most effective argument among arguments for the existence of a moral God. Imagen a universe without a moral law giver such as God, morality of what is good or evil or what is right or wrong, morality would be subjective not objective. The moral argument appeals to the existence of moral laws as evidence of God’s existence. According to this argument, there couldn’t be such a thing as morality without God.
Argument from morality can be summarized as follows:
a) If God does not exist, then objective moral values do not exits.
b) Objective moral values exist.
Therefore, God exist.
Premise a tells us that no god, no good. What this implies is that if God does not exist as a moral absolute and moral law giver, then this would logically follow that goodness is arbitrary and relative. What is intrisincally good value for you might intrinsically evil value for the other person. If you think that cannibalism is inherently evil to you, eating human flesh could be an appetizer for someone else! If there is no moral God, then there is neither good nor evil. Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky once said, “If there is no God, everything is possible.”
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The second premise b, that moral values exist is undeniably true. All of us, or at least most of us, have an inborn and ineradicable knowledge of basic morality. For instance, it is always wrong and evil to torture infants for the fun of it. We all know that torturing infants for fun is wrong and the statement above expresses an objective moral value. Let me make another example, stealing from anyone is always wrong anytime anywhere. One does not need to believe in a moral God to know that stealing is wrong. We know this intuitively. We know something to be wrong because a moral God endowed it into our hearts. So, the best explaination why there is morality is because a good, and unfailing objective morality exists and this we call God.
Again, if there is no God as atheists agressively propagates then there would be no objective goodness.Philosopher atheist, J. L. Mackie agrees,
“Moral properties constitutes so odd a cluster of qualities and relations that they are most unlikely to have arisen in ordinary course of events without an all-powerful God to create them.” [The Miracles of Theism, J. L. Mackie, Oxford:Clarendon Press,p.115]
