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[topdog98]

I will contend that there is no absolute morality outside of religion.

Any atheist philosophy professor will tell you that there are no moral absolutes. If there are, then why? Who gets to decide?

If we are highly evolved animals and nothing more, then behaviors such as theft, rape, and murder cannot be absolutely wrong. These behaviors are acceptable, necessary, and advantageous in the animal world.

If one says absolute morality comes from societies or governments, this is not true. Societies and governments can and will change their minds (making morality no longer absolute), and governments often find theft, murder, and rape to be acceptable, necessary, and advantageous.

If one says absolute morality comes from "science," this is also untrue. Was it wrong for Ota Benga (a human) to be placed in the monkey house exhibit in the Bronx Zoo because he was supposedly only a highly evolved ape? Was it wrong for Australian Aboriginal people to be killed so that there bones could be displayed in museums since they were supposedly examples of highly evolved apes? If this was wrong, why? Who says so? Science didn't think so. If science says it is wrong now, then science changed its mind which means that morality is not absolute.

How can the concepts of right and wrong even have a meaning outside of a Higher Authority?

If a child is taught that he shouldn't hit because he wouldn't want to be hit, this is the golden rule. This is religion.

Absolute morality only makes sense to me because of God.