Concerning Morality

5.21.04 Open Your Eyes

Just think with me for a moment. What is life? What is this frail, complicated world we live in? Is it indeed a concoction of random events occuring one after another?

If so, you have no basis for morality.

What about friendships... are they just futile attempts to make ourselves feel better and be able to survive longer? Are friends just a collection of symbiotic benificiaries?

If so, you might as well take as much advantage of your friends as you can.

What about God? Is he just a benign, laid back god who allows things to go on outside of his will?

If so, the world would collapse into debauchery and uttermost evil.

What about love? Is is just an emotion, a balance of chemicals in the head that make us feel attracted to a certain individual?

If so, there would be no basis for morality, marriage, even friendship.

What about family? Has its purpose in America become obsolete?

If so, we have no basis for morality.

Open your eyes. What drives us to be better people? What makes the seemingly harmless things we do bad? Morality. From where does this inner sense of right and wrong derive itself? Humans? If that were the case, my morality could tell me that genocide was good. Hitler would be justified in his actions. Morality, otherwise known as the Universal Moral Law, derives itself from an eternal God, one being, one entity. Otherwise there would be discord in the Universal Moral Law, as multiple entities with infinite power would clash in will.

Thus, our morality proves the existence of God.

You might say that morality indeed doesn't exist, that it is a fabricated notion composed by humans in order to make themselves better. But I challenge: with what would humans compare in order to think of something as good or better? In other words, without morality, humans would have no clear intellect at all I daresay.

But you say I have walked into a trap. Our ultimate goal as animals is to survive. And survival would indeed be better than nonsurvival. Thus, limiting your own survival or someone else's survival would be bad.

But I ask: Hitler's actions definitely limited the survival of millions of people, in the name of self-preservation and the futherance of the Arryan race. Thus, for his own survival, which was good.

If morality was based on survival, there would be no harmony in it.

And indeed we see a harmony in the Universal Moral Law looking at the different nations. The beliefs include honoring father and mother, helping the needy, fighting for your people (as opposed to being a traitor), and the list goes on and on.

But you point out that many people and nations do not live up to this standard, they in fact live in spite of it.
Listing the practices such as genocide, cannibalism, forcing religion on others as bad blatantly speaks that you believe in the Universal Moral Law.

But I am not the most eloquent in this area, and I recommend Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis.

Tell me your thoughts. Tell me if I have spoken any untruths. Please do not hesitate.

In uttermost bombasticity, I shall always remain

Don Townsend