Now, yesterday I made the arguments that there is no basis for objective morality without

God.

As an atheist, you cannot logically assert any kind of objective moral code because you

have denied God.

And I argued that the only thing left for an atheist is moral relativism.

That's really the only option that is logically open to them.

Now, I'm not going to rehash that argument.

You can go and listen to it or watch it if you like.

My main objective was just to knock down the idea that it's possible for objective morality

to exist in a Godless universe.

I spent 30 minutes trying to do that so you can go and look at that.

Listen to that.

Quite a lot of feedback to that discussion, much of it ranging from negative to extremely

negative.

And now what I'd like to do is I'd like to engage what appeared to be the two most frequent

criticisms of the position that I expressed yesterday.

Now the first one, I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it.

I did want to mention it though, there were a lot of people who insisted quite breathlessly

that it is possible for an atheist to do good things and be a good person.

In fact, as I was told, just because atheists believe that there is no God doesn't mean

that they're going to go off killing and raping, etc.

You don't need God to be a good person.

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