“Can We Be Good without God?”
William Lane Craig from the Reasonable Faith website
Any number of atheists, embracing any number of Humanist or secular/ideological dogmas, will scoff at that of course.
They put their trust in Reason. In political idealism. In moral obligations derived from one or another deontological assessment derived from one or another set of philosophical assumptions.
That is, until, with respect to a particular set of conflicting goods revolving around issues that revolve around social, political and economic justice, they can never seem to all agree on what the actual “rules of behavior” must be. The most reasonal rewards and punishments.
And then what to do with the sociopaths who insist that reason here in a No God world ought to and does revolve around their own perceived self-interests?
In other words, what many construe to be nihilistic, sociopathic behaviors is deemed by those actually choosing to pursue them to be just the opposite: a furtherance of their own self-righteous cause or movement or revolution.
And without a God, the God, your God to both name them and to punish them on Judgment Day, who can demonstrate beyond all doubt [here and now] that they are wrong?
And it is this frame of mind that folks like me have to endure. We can’t know what is necessarily right or wrong without first believing in a God that can actually establish this once and for all.
And, sure, this may well be an unreasonable way in which to view the world around us. But you can’t just flick a switch to off in your head and will yourself into rejecting what you have in fact existentially come to think yourself into believing.
You can only imagine a new experience that might manage to turn everything around. Or come into places like this and hear the arguments of others.