re: NSIAP: Bill Nye's Degenerate "My Sex Junk" children's singalong (NSFW)

You can't escape the moral compass that Christianity has provided you.

It didn't come out of thin air.

You are welcome.

By the way, by my count, you currently follow almost all the 10 commandments.

You are well on your way.

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I don't want it to be said that I ignored them

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I know what you mean, but I try to keep it to actual arguments that need response rather than pointing out something frivolous.

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Science, philosophy, education, etc.

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Science: Doesn't address morality

Philosophy: Can address morality but I've found points more to the necessity of God than not, especially in terms of justifying morality.

Education: Isn't helpful towards morality unless you are learning about philosophy or religion. Learning about science and history won't drive someone to be a good person if they don't believe in an objective standard for goodness.

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I sure hope you don't believe religion to be the only thing preventing human nature from turning us back into wild animals.

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Humans can choose to be primitive or not. However, if the Christian worldview is rejected, there is no objective basis for judging right and wrong beyond the concept of "might makes right" where those in power (however that looks like) determines the moral code of the day. In those situations, the moral code can change very quickly, and not always for the better (even the definition of "better" is subjective in that worldview, since what is good, bad, better, and worse is really up to the individual).

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No, it doesn't.

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It does, because it recognizes a singular law-giver that is above humanity that will hold all people accountable to it. When God is rejected and humanity is made sole arbiter of truth, each individual can decide what is and isn't true and what is and isn't moral. People create their own moral code to live by and thus any accepted human-based moral code has to be subjective. That's also why it changes from day to day and year to year.

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See, here's your issue. Atheists don't rely on a contradictory book written thousands of years ago by primitives for their moral compasses. If you do, have at it. Just don't expect everyone to continue falling for it.

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Atheists have to borrow from the Christian worldview to justify their own morality. The only consistent atheist is the one that literally doesn't judge anyone as right or wrong, moral or immoral, because they know that there is no objective standard to judge by. That means no one else's moral code is better or worse than their own. They recognize the law without recognizing the law-giver. Talk about contradictory.