Morality arose before there were humans. Why do the devout need to rationalize that morality began with the Abrahamic God?
In a Medium article published November 19, 2024, Matthew promoted the well-worn saw that religion is necessary for human morality. To make his case, he tries to push a square block through a round hole to get to his ultimate goal — to justify religion’s, specifically Christianity’s, necessary role as the basis for morality and social cohesion.
But before I discuss Matthew’s argument, I want to address the many comments he received. Most of the push back was about the complete hypocrisy of Christianity, and religions in general, which has a long history of inflicting oppression, torture, and death to heathens; that is anybody who isn’t a Christian or even the correct Christian denomination — the incorrect one being any other than the denomination of the people inflicting the punishment.
Matthew weaves and dodges with the best. In response to a comment that Christians have supported slavery and abetted sexual predators, he dives deep into moral relativism when he says, “The fact that you think slavery or sex with minors to be wrong is a product of…
