The Morally Superior Atheist
I have made much of the argument for Christianity’s truth based on the moral argument . The basic idea of the moral argument is that atheism has no basing for objective morality; there is no reason for an atheist to be moral given their way of thinking about the world. This form of argumentation is often miss-characterized by those in the vocal atheist movement. They say we are accusing them of being amoral, evil people who do not live lives that meet a high standard of right and wrong. Some web sites ever accuse us of saying atheists eat babies because they are so immoral. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the argument. In fact, the argument only works if most atheists are outwardly morally outstanding people. The idea is that a morally superior atheist has no objective basis for the moral life he or she is living. They are borrowing a set of moral absolutes from another worldview, unusually Christianity itself. A person o...