you believe god is a necessary evil... to keep people from doing bad things

No, that's an overreach. God is only necessary to DEFINE absolute good and absolute bad.

All moral absolutism is a fabrication. It does not exist in nature. But being a fabrication does not make something not real.

Without god, the moral relativists are "correct". A cat's sadistic joy of playing with a mouse it has already wounded is right and good because the cat's own existence and satisfaction is all that exists to the cat.

We humans invented god. As surely as we invented tools and weapons. We invented god to serve a purpose, to solve a problem which we have studied for thousands of years. We looked for a source of moral absolutes that could be universalized onto all beings. And what we found is that no source within ourselves would serve. We had to project the problem onto something external and untouchable. Law is insufficient. Tyrants are unreliable. Only god could fit the task.

you believe god is a necessary evil... to keep people from doing bad things

No, that's an overreach. God is only necessary to DEFINE absolute good and absolute bad.

All moral absolutism is a fabrication. It does not exist in nature. But being a fabrication does not make something not real.

Without god, the moral relativists are "correct". A cat's sadistic joy of playing with a mouse it has already wounded is right and good because the cat's own existence and satisfaction is all that exists to the cat.

We humans invented god. As surely as we invented tools and weapons. We invented god to serve a purpose, to solve a problem which we have studied for thousands of years. We looked for a source of moral absolutes that could be universalized onto all beings. And what we found is that no source within ourselves would serve. We had to project the problem onto something external and untouchable. Law is insufficient. Tyrants are unreliable. Only god could fit the task.

To put it more simply, faith in god is the only argument against moral nihilism that holds water. We have found no other. You are welcome to try.

you believe god is a necessary evil... to keep people from doing bad things

No, that's an overreach. God is only necessary to DEFINE absolute good and absolute bad.

All moral absolutism is a fabrication. It does not exist in nature. But being a fabrication does not make something not real.

Without god, the moral relativists are "correct". A cat's sadistic joy of playing with a mouse it has already wounded is right and good because the cat's own existence and satisfaction is all that exists to the cat.

We humans invented god. As surely as we invented tools and weapons. We invented god to serve a purpose, to solve a problem which we have studied for thousands of years. We looked for a source of moral absolutes that could be universalized onto all beings. And what we found is that no source within ourselves would serve. We had to project the problem onto something external and untouchable. Law is insufficient. Tyrants are unreliable. Only god could fit the task.

you believe god is a necessary evil... to keep people from doing bad things

No, that's an overreach. God is only necessary to DEFINE absolute good and absolute bad.

All moral absolutism is a fabrication. It does not exist in nature.

Without god, the moral relativists are "correct". A cat's sadistic joy of playing with a mouse it has already wounded is right and good because the cat's own existence and satisfaction is all that exists to the cat.

We humans invented god. As surely as we invented tools and weapons. We invented god to serve a purpose, to solve a problem which we have studied for thousands of years. We looked for a source of moral absolutes that could be universalized onto all beings. And what we found is that no source within ourselves would serve. We had to project the problem onto something external and untouchable. Law is insufficient. Tyrants are unreliable. Only god could fit the task.

you believe god is a necessary evil... to keep people from doing bad things

No, that's an overreach. God is only necessary to DEFINE absolute good and absolute bad.

All moral absolutism is a fabrication. It does not exist in nature.

Without god, the moral relativists are "correct". A cat's sadistic joy of playing with a mouse it has already wounded is right and good because the cat's own existence and satisfaction is all that exists to the cat.

you believe god is a necessary evil... to keep people from doing bad things

No, that's an overreach. God is only necessary to DEFINE absolute good and absolute bad.

All moral absolutism is a fabrication. It does not exist in nature.

Without god, the moral relativists are "correct". A cat's sadistic joy of playing with a mouse it has already wounded is right and good because the cat's own existence and satisfaction is all that exists to the cat.