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Objective morality and the existence of God

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-[[File:Hitler.jpg|thumb|206px|right|The [[evolution]]ist and gay rights[[Richard Dawkins and agnosticism|agnostic]] [[Richard Dawkins]] said in an interview: “What’s to prevent us from saying [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] wasn’t right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question."<ref name=Hitler>http://byfaithonline.com/page/in-the-world/richard-dawkins-the-atheist-evangelist</ref>]]
+[[File:Hitler.jpg|thumb|206px|right|The [[evolution]]ist and [[Richard Dawkins and agnosticism|agnostic]] [[Richard Dawkins]] said in an interview: “What’s to prevent us from saying [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] wasn’t right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question."<ref name=Hitler>http://byfaithonline.com/page/in-the-world/richard-dawkins-the-atheist-evangelist</ref>]]
 The [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] [[William Lane Craig]] declared:
 {{cquote|...to say that the [[Holocaust]] was objectively [[evil]] is to say that it was evil, even though the [[Nazi]]s who carried it out thought that it was good, and it would still have been evil even if the Nazis had won World War II and succeeded in brainwashing or exterminating everyone who disagreed with them, so that everybody thought the Holocaust was good.”<ref>[http://www.strangenotions.com/does-objective-morality-depend-upon-god/ Does objective morality depend upon God?]</ref>}}

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-[[File:Hitler.jpg|thumb|206px|right|The [[evolution]]ist and [[Richard Dawkins and agnosticism|agnostic]] [[Richard Dawkins]] said in an interview: “What’s to prevent us from saying [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] wasn’t right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question."<ref name=Hitler>http://byfaithonline.com/page/in-the-world/richard-dawkins-the-atheist-evangelist</ref>]]
+[[File:Hitler.jpg|thumb|206px|right|The [[evolution]]ist and gay rights[[Richard Dawkins and agnosticism|agnostic]] [[Richard Dawkins]] said in an interview: “What’s to prevent us from saying [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] wasn’t right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question."<ref name=Hitler>http://byfaithonline.com/page/in-the-world/richard-dawkins-the-atheist-evangelist</ref>]]
 The [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] [[William Lane Craig]] declared:
 {{cquote|...to say that the [[Holocaust]] was objectively [[evil]] is to say that it was evil, even though the [[Nazi]]s who carried it out thought that it was good, and it would still have been evil even if the Nazis had won World War II and succeeded in brainwashing or exterminating everyone who disagreed with them, so that everybody thought the Holocaust was good.”<ref>[http://www.strangenotions.com/does-objective-morality-depend-upon-god/ Does objective morality depend upon God?]</ref>}}

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	On Christianity moral values have their objective and universal basis in the immutable nature of God. He neither arbitrarily created the moral law, nor is there an external moral domain in which God is subject. Moral values are, because of who God is.<ref>[http://www.apologetics.net/post/What-is-objective-morality.aspx What is objective morality?]</ref>}}		On Christianity moral values have their objective and universal basis in the immutable nature of God. He neither arbitrarily created the moral law, nor is there an external moral domain in which God is subject. Moral values are, because of who God is.<ref>[http://www.apologetics.net/post/What-is-objective-morality.aspx What is objective morality?]</ref>}}
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		+	Leftists tend to denounce objective morality, or indeed any form of absolutes, as evil and compare the concept to the totalitarianism to the Nazis (when in reality the Nazis did not adhere to objective morality), and even tended to denounce anyone who adheres to objective morality as being insane and childish, with the implication that reality is always gray.

	== Atheism and moral relativism ==		== Atheism and moral relativism ==

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 *[http://crossexamined.org/do-objective-moral-truths-exist-in-reality/ Do Objective Moral Truths Exist in Reality?] by Terry Lewis
 *[http://powertochange.com/students/uqmorality/ Ultimate Questions: Can Objective Morality Exist Without God?]
-*[http://www.gotquestions.org/moral-argument.html What is the Moral argument for the existence of God?]
+*[https://www.gotquestions.org/moral-argument.html What is the Moral argument for the existence of God?]
 *[http://crossexamined.org/312/ The Moral Argument for the Existence of God]
 *[http://www.paulcopan.com/articles/pdf/God-naturalism-morality.pdf God, Naturalism, and the Foundations of Morality] by
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 *[http://crossexamined.org/do-objective-moral-truths-exist-in-reality/ Do Objective Moral Truths Exist in Reality?] by Terry Lewis
 *[http://powertochange.com/students/uqmorality/ Ultimate Questions: Can Objective Morality Exist Without God?]
-*[http://www.gotquestions.org/moral-argument.html What is the Moral argument for the existence of God?]
+*[https://www.gotquestions.org/moral-argument.html What is the Moral argument for the existence of God?]
 *[http://crossexamined.org/312/ The Moral Argument for the Existence of God]
 *[http://www.paulcopan.com/articles/pdf/God-naturalism-morality.pdf God, Naturalism, and the Foundations of Morality] by [[Paul Copan]]

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	On Christianity moral values have their objective and universal basis in the immutable nature of God. He neither arbitrarily created the moral law, nor is there an external moral domain in which God is subject. Moral values are, because of who God is.<ref>[http://www.apologetics.net/post/What-is-objective-morality.aspx What is objective morality?]</ref>}}		On Christianity moral values have their objective and universal basis in the immutable nature of God. He neither arbitrarily created the moral law, nor is there an external moral domain in which God is subject. Moral values are, because of who God is.<ref>[http://www.apologetics.net/post/What-is-objective-morality.aspx What is objective morality?]</ref>}}
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		+	== Atheism and moral relativism ==
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		+	See: [[Atheism and moral relativism]]

	== Objective morality and the existence of God ==		== Objective morality and the existence of God ==

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 *[[Moral relativism]]
 *[[Atheism and meaninglessness]]
 *[[Moral decline]]

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 *[http://www.equip.org/articles/atheists-and-the-quest-for-objective-morality/ Atheists and the Quest for Objective Morality] by Chad Meister
 *[http://carm.org/failure-of-atheism-to-account-for-morality The failure of atheism to account for morality]</ref>  See also: [[Atheism and morality]]
 == New Atheism and objective morality ==

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	• What makes your moral standard more than a subjective opinion or personal preference? What makes it truly binding or obligatory? Why can’t I just ignore it? Won’t our end be the same (death and the grave) either way?<ref>[http://magazine.biola.edu/article/11-summer/can-we-be-good-without-god/ Can We Be Good Without God?] by Craig J. Hazen, Biola University</ref>}}		• What makes your moral standard more than a subjective opinion or personal preference? What makes it truly binding or obligatory? Why can’t I just ignore it? Won’t our end be the same (death and the grave) either way?<ref>[http://magazine.biola.edu/article/11-summer/can-we-be-good-without-god/ Can We Be Good Without God?] by Craig J. Hazen, Biola University</ref>}}
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−	For example, atheists have been the biggest mass murderers in history (see: [[Atheism and mass murder]]). Dr. R. J. Rummel's mid estimate regarding the loss of life due to atheistic [[communism]] is that communism caused the death of approximately 110,286,000 people between 1917 and 1987.<ref>Rummel, R. J. (November 1993). [http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM "How many did communist regimes murder?"] University of Hawaii website; Freedom, Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide, and War. Retrieved July 19, 2014.</ref>

	== See also ==		== See also ==

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	For example, atheists have been the biggest mass murderers in history (see: [[Atheism and mass murder]]). Dr. R. J. Rummel's mid estimate regarding the loss of life due to atheistic [[communism]] is that communism caused the death of approximately 110,286,000 people between 1917 and 1987.<ref>Rummel, R. J. (November 1993). [http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM "How many did communist regimes murder?"] University of Hawaii website; Freedom, Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide, and War. Retrieved July 19, 2014.</ref>		For example, atheists have been the biggest mass murderers in history (see: [[Atheism and mass murder]]). Dr. R. J. Rummel's mid estimate regarding the loss of life due to atheistic [[communism]] is that communism caused the death of approximately 110,286,000 people between 1917 and 1987.<ref>Rummel, R. J. (November 1993). [http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM "How many did communist regimes murder?"] University of Hawaii website; Freedom, Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide, and War. Retrieved July 19, 2014.</ref>
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		+	== See also ==
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		+	*[[Moral relativism]]
		+	*[[Atheism and meaninglessness]]
		+	*[[Moral decline]]
		+	*[[Good and evil]]
		+	*[[Problem of evil]]
		+	*[[Theodicy]]
		+	* [[Postmodernism]]
		+	*[[Nihilism]]

	== External links ==		== External links ==