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5-Minute Videos | PragerU

If There Is No God, Murder Isn't Wrong

5-Minute Videos | PragerU

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Self-improvement, History, Non-profit, Business, Education

4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

If there is no God, murder isn't wrong. You may think it's wrong, but how do you know it's wrong? As Dennis Prager explains, without God, all morality is mere opinion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Do you believe that good and evil exist?

0:03.5

The answer to this question separates Judeo-Christian values from secular values.

0:10.5

Let me offer the clearest possible example.

0:14.2

Murder.

0:15.8

Is murder wrong?

0:17.7

Is it evil?

0:19.4

Nearly everyone would answer yes, but now I will pose a much harder question.

0:25.1

How do you know?

0:26.6

I'm sure you think murder is wrong.

0:30.0

But how do you know?

0:32.3

If I asked you how you know that the earth is round,

0:34.7

you would show me photographs from outer space or off from mean measurable data.

0:39.8

But what photographs could you show?

0:41.4

What measurements could you provide that prove that murder or rape or theft is wrong?

0:50.0

The fact is you can't.

0:53.2

There are scientific facts, but without God, there are no moral facts.

0:59.7

In a secular world, there can only be opinions about morality.

1:04.1

They may be personal opinions or societies opinions, but only opinions.

1:10.5

Every atheist philosopher I have read or debated on this subject has acknowledged that if there is no God,

1:17.4

there is no objective morality.

1:20.0

Judeo-Christian values are predicated on the existence of a God of morality.

1:25.0

In other words, only if there is a God who says murder is wrong, is murder wrong?

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