Is belief in God necessary to have a solid grounding for morality?
In our other article, Does Morality Depend on God?, we critiqued God-dependent metaethics. Nothing had been said of the merits of any particular non-theistic metaethical theory, and nothing needs to be said to make that critique stand. After all, God-dependent metaethics doesn’t somehow become true by default. However, much more can be said for a…
Introduction I have rarely engaged in a debate with a theist where the issue of morality justification has not come up. The theist’s complaint typically takes the following form. If there is no God, then why is it wrong to murder and steal? Even if you don’t want to murder and steal, on what grounds…
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