Can objective morality exist without God?

Answer 1

Always has.
Morals are merely the agreed upon norms of a society at a given time.
God(s) or religion have little to do with it.

Answer 2

If Objective morality exist is without any gods because objectively speaking we must admit that religions are a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality and the very idea of gods is a product of the human imagination.

Answer 3

Of course objective morality can exist without an imaginary God. It's usually referred to as "the Law." It describes forbidden behaviors and prescribes the punishments deliberate violators can expect to receive.

Answer 4

Define "Objective Morality"


Even if there is a God, and God says "This Moral. That is Amoral" Is that not just subjective to what God thinks is moral or amoral?

Answer 5

You can make subjective decisions on a set of moral standards from which objective moral judgements can be made based on those standards.

This is the way the vast majority of people make moral decisions. For example most, even Christians reject much of the "moral" lessons of the bible, we recognize slavery, infanticide, killing witches, adulterers etc is immoral, we have created a superior secular moral system to the moral teachings of the bible.

Answer 6

It does and no god needed nowhere.

Answer 7

Sure.We aren’t drones who follow orders.Even the most prominent christian philosophers such as Descartes denied that morality is an outcome of religious upbringing.

Answer 8

Yes. Morality is about well being of sentient creatures. When we’re talking about morality, we’re talking about actions having an impact on surviving and thriving in the world, with an understanding actions have consequences. We are physical beings in a physical universe, and that objectively dictates what the consequences of our actions are.

Answer 9

A better question is, can objective morality exist WITH God? Because if your morality comes from a single being, then it is not objective.

I know Christians won't watch this, because animations terrify them, but this video illustrates the problem perfectly.
https://youtu.be/zDwr8Ptq3gc

Answer 10

First of all, there is NO such thing as 'objective morality'. Nor can there be.

150 years ago, in the US, 'objective morality', fully supported by religion, said that Black people were subhuman, and that is why it was OK to keep them as SLAVES. No one sane believes any such nonsense anymore. So, is our morality now 'objective', or the morality 150 years ago ? It can't be both, because in between that span of time, it CHANGED.

According to the bible, which one of the following is immoral?

a) Raping someone
b) Treating women as objects
c) Picking up sticks on a Saturday
d) Genocide
e) Infanticide
f) Killing someone for having different views to you
g) Slavery

According to the Bible, only option c) is wrong. All of the others are either accepted as mainstream, or even encouraged, in the Bible.

However, you and I both know that all of the others are wrong and that c) is perfectly innocent. You do not get your morality from scripture and neither does anyone else.

Searching through religious scripture for morality is like searching through the sewers for small coins; sure, there is some in there, but is it really worth it?
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-If one argues, as some deeply religious individuals do, that without God there can be no ultimate right and wrong - namely that God determines for us what is right and wrong - one can then ask the question: What is God decreed that rape and murder were morally acceptable ? Would that make them so ?

While some might answer yes, I think most believers would say no, God would not make such a decree. But why not ? Presumably because God would have some *reason* for not making such a decree. Again, presumably this is because *reason* suggests that rape and murder are not morally acceptable. But if God would have to appeal to *reason*, then why not eliminate the middleman entirely ?- Lawrence Krauss, A Universe From Nothing, Pgs 171-172.