re: Stunning Admission By Renowned Atheist; Decline of Christianity is Hurting Society

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If humans are incapable of looking within to know what is right and what is wrong, then how do humans know that what religion tells us is “right?”

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Humans are capable of knowing right from wrong because we're made in the image of God with His moral law written on our hearts. My worldview can account for this.

In a worldview that denies God, morality can only exist in the minds of the individual and therefore it can't be a transcendent truth or reality that all people are accountable to or can judge their own moral standards by.

If you believe that humans can look within to know right and wrong without the Biblical God, then you have to agree that each human can look within and find their own version of moral truth.

If every person can have their own version of moral truth then there cannot objectively be one right or one wrong version of morality that exists for humanity. And without an objectively right standard of morality, each individual moral standard is neither right nor wrong, just a different interpretation for each individual, meaning that they are all equally valid to one another. That means Hitler's moral standard that he received by looking within is equal in validity to Gandhi's moral standard.

This reduces morality to nothing more than a convention determined by each individual, or as I and others like to say, a preference rather than a actual moral ought.