The second approach that secular thinkers take is to simply see moral obligation as a “brute fact.” One evening after one of our church’s meetings for sceptics, a man approached me and said, “I’m an atheist, but I’m no relativist—not at all. Murder, racism, exploiting the poor, lying and cheating, these are all wrong, anytime, anywhere, regardless of who is doing them.” I asked him why, if there was no God, he thought that. “I see a tree and I know it’s a tree. It’s just there, and that doesn’t prove there’s a God. I see good and evil and I know them too. They are just there, and that doesn’t
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Intuitionism
