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Can we have morality without God?

Why do so many educated people find it so hard to take personal responsibility for their actions and morality? Looking to primitive superstitions for an answer to every moral dilemma seems to remove the need to develop our own mental tools for dealing with the problems that living in modern societies present us. Do you agree that the introduction of some form of ethics class to all children’s early schooling would help us in the move towards modern post-religious societies?

I disagree with you that without God we would be able to establish a viable ethic. If man is the only standard for right and wrong, then anything goes because all men are equal and one man’s ethic is just as good as another. In order to have a standard of right and wrong, there must be something higher than man to establish that standard. God is that higher authority. To paraphrase Jean Paul Sartre: if there is no God then anything is permissible. All actions are morally equivalent. The murder of innocent children would be morally equivalent with eating an ice cream cone. Is that the kind of morality that you want our society to have?

I recommend that you study the following material which clearly illustrates the relationship between the existence of morality and God: The Existence of God (Part 3)