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Friends, as promised, the second edition of the recent Hope podcast with Parks Edwards

on the moral argument for God's existence, here you go.

We can move into now just looking at a few objections to the moral argument.

You've already addressed one, which is not a very serious objection, but a lot of people

raise it, and it's just the idea that you don't need to believe in God to be a moral

person.

And so he's already kind of talked about that.

The distinction there is, the problem isn't belief in God, it's the existence of God.

If God doesn't exist, then nobody can be good because of no standard.

But if God does exist, even people that gives a standard, even people who don't believe

in Him could keep the standard back to the reading illustration, too.

So that's the distinction, exactly.

So you mentioned relativism earlier.

Philosophers are going to distinguish between two types of relativism, although they're

definitely related, cultural relativism and then individual relativism or subjectivism.

I want to look at an objection to the moral argument based in cultural relativism.

So it may go like this, morality is dependent upon human culture, and so therefore it's not

something transcendent or objective.

Transcendent moral codes must be rejected because this results in a kind of, some people

would say, an intolerant dogmatism towards those disagree.

And the way that I've seen morality relativized to cultures is people like anthropologists,

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