The hardest thing for me to wrap my brain around is how I do believe in morality and so called right and wrong and even order to some extent without calling myself a Christian, most of my life I've always had the mind set that it doesn't really matter rather a god exists or doesn't exist because if you are a good person there is no worry. But what is a good person? Well, in my take its a moral person. Well, that brings the next question, what are morals? And regardless of my mental gymnastics I try to play I can't seem to find anyway logical to find what morality is without coming to Judeo-Christian values. I'm still not professing belief in anything, I'm also not denying anything. Just explaining my current mentality I suppose.
Discussion
I respectfully disagree. Morality cannot exist without God defining morality with an unwavering Godly standard. Humans trying to just be a good person will never be morality because each human selfishly defines good differently leading to moral relativism. Moral relativism is a slippery slope that always eventually leads to humans defining immoral things as good.
You don't disagree with me then, you just said exactly what I said.
The theory that moral behavior is entirely dependent on belief in a god is clearly wrong. Even if believers are measurably more moral in some ways, most atheists are far from sociopaths.
Good and evil is an illusion. All that exists is perception of the event.
I think it's possible to see morality as a protocol for interacting with others that produces the best outcome for life on earth. What I mean is, you can logically conclude that life on earth is better if we all agree not to steal each other's stuff or perpetrate violence against one another. Therefore we should all agree on a natural law that forbids these things.
However, it's easier to justify this in the light of a God who created all things. If we are all children of God, created in his image, then we honor that God by loving one another. Your enemy is also a child of God. When we hurt one another we dishonor our creator. When we hurt the earth, destroy the environment, we also dishonor our creator, who created all these things for us and gave us dominion over the earth.
Jesus told us that God is not the god of the dead, but the god of life. All life comes from him.
The universe is entropy, but from that entropy arises order. In that order is life. Look at the complex structure of DNA. Simple elements combined together create something more then the sum of their parts. It's hard for me to look at this order from entropy and not see the intelligent design of a creator.
