“Can We Be Good without God?”
William Lane Craig from the Reasonable Faith website
Of course here the Christian apologists always seem to miss the part bursting at the seams with irony. Their “loving, just and merciful” God, said to be omnipotent, permitted the Nazis to prevail for years. Millions upon millions of men, women and child slaughtered on the battlefields, in the death camps or among civilian populations.
And, it is said, “God sees all.”
And yet the point is still there: In a No God world, all behaviors can be rationalized one way or another. If only because, historically, one way or another, almost all behaviors already have been.
Seen as barbaric and even unthinkable on one side, they are embraced in a moral crusade on the other.
In other words, demonstrating that an objective moral code does in fact exist in a No God world does not mean that those who violate it will be caught. Let alone punished. Only divine justice can assure that.
Without an omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent foundation, mere mortals are far, far removed from the sort of justice that so many yearn for. And, again, the irony embedded in the moral and political crusades of those secular objectivists that do prevail and obtain political power is often as grotesque as their religious equivalent.
First of course “the depths of evil” that are within humankind can only be traced back to the Creator. It exists because God created it, created us…in His imager? After all, if a mere mortal created an entity that made life a living hell for others, would not he or she be held responsible?
Still, the point raised here is not unreasonable. At least not necessarily. If one believes there is no God then one can choose to behave with the concern only in fulfilling his or her own perceived wants and needs. Then doing whatever on earth it takes to get away with it. To not be caught and punished.