Challenge: You Don’t Need Religion to Distinguish Right from Wrong
We’re going to take on one last challenge from “How to Argue That God Does Not Exist” today (see here and here for the previous ones):
Many people believe that without religion, the planet would descend into immoral chaos. The reality is that the majority of heinous crimes committed against people on this planet across all of recorded history had their roots on religious beliefs, but the ability to distinguish right from wrong does not require any religious beliefs. In addition, animals who are incapable of understanding our human concept of religion show clear evidence of understanding moral behavior and distinguishing between right and wrong.
What do you think? Tell us how you would respond to a friend who said this to you, then we’ll post Brett’s response on Thursday and you can see how you did.
