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Is God Necessary for Morality?

In the Arena: The Debates and Lectures of William Lane Craig

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Is There a Morality Like That?

On an atheistic view, why think that creatures that have self consciousness and rationality are inherently valuable? If the evolutionary conditions were different, creatures like us might have evolved quite different sorts of rationality. I don't see any reason to think that causing suffering to members of the human species is something that is objectively wrong. And without god, there is no moral accountability. She says, the crag is looking for a self interested reason to be moral. He's not giving you a moral reason to obey. On the theory of ethics that i am defending, we do have moral reasons to obey god because god is the ultimate good. His commands to us are therefore right, and therefore we have a

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