But here’s the thing, even if there is a God we all agree he’s not communicating. If you believe in the Bible then you have a set of rules given by him, but most of them don’t apply anymore. So it’s very pick and choose even for people who believe in God. Therefore it’s disingenuous to claim there wouldn’t be a distinction from good and evil without God, when you can’t agree among yourselves what is good and what is evil. At the end of the day, even IF God existed and IF the bible was his written word, you have to choose between slavery being okay or shrimps being evil, there’s no in-between, either those are the rules or they aren’t, if those are the rules then eating shrimp is evil just like murdering, cutting your beard, laying with another man or wearing mixed fabric clothes, all sins, all equally bad. If those are not the rules then how do you know what’s good? How do you know what God thinks is good? What’s the point of the Bible if you’re not accepting the rules there?
At the end of the day everyone has their own morality, and that’s easily demonstrable, pick two people from the same religion and ask them questions on morally ambiguous things until they disagree. If their morality was indeed given by a single entity it would be unique. That’s not the case, therefore their morality doesn’t come from the same entity, therefore they also don’t know right from wrong because of religion.
But here’s the thing, even if there is a God we all agree he’s not communicating. If you believe in the Bible then you have a set of rules given by him, but most of them don’t apply anymore. So it’s very pick and choose even for people who believe in God. Therefore it’s disingenuous to claim there wouldn’t be a distinction from good and evil without God, when you can’t agree among yourselves what is good and what is evil. At the end of the day, even IF God existed and IF the bible was his written word, you have to choose between slavery being okay or shrimps being evil, there’s no in-between, either those are the rules or they aren’t, if those are the rules then eating shrimp is evil just like murdering, cutting your beard, laying with another man or wearing mixed fabric clothes, all sins, all equally bad. If those are not the rules then how do you know what’s good? How do you know what God thinks is good? What’s the point of the Bible if you’re not accepting the rules there?
At the end of the day everyone has their own morality, and that’s easily demonstrable, pick two people from the same religion and ask them questions on morally ambiguous things until they disagree. If their morality was indeed given by a single entity it would be unique. That’s not the case, therefore their morality doesn’t come from the same entity, therefore they also don’t know right from wrong because of religion.