“Can We Be Good without God?”
William Lane Craig from the Reasonable Faith website
This is where moral nihilism can leave some truly shaken. And the fact that one is disturbed by the implcations of living in a world where all things – all things – are permitted in the absence of God, might prompt some to reconsider.
Perhaps, given a new set of experiences, a new set of relationships and access to new ideas, I might be one of them.
I’m just not now.
In fact, there are those who rationalize all of the above behaviors merely by insisting that, from their own point of view, in the absence of God, they feel justified in choosing whatever behaviors [embodied in dasein] bring them satisfaction and fulfillment.
And I have yet to come upon a philsophical argument able to demonstrate that this is – necessarily – an irrational point of view.
After all, nature has certainly equipped us genetically, biologically to choose those behaviors. It just comes down to the trajectory of any particular life predisposing one person behave in a manner that predisoses another to view as a moral abomination.
And then the part where [God or No God] behaviors like abortion are seen to be moral abominations by some and political imperatives by others.
Finally, the behaviors chosen by both the religious and the secular objectivists that, in the name of God or Reason or political ideology, have visited all manner of horrific consequences upon the human species.
A classic example of something becoming true for someone because “in their head” “here and now” they believe it to be true. A “general description” of particular human qualities in which no actual context is explored and then assessed. After all, that might spoil the pristine view concocted out of a world of words.