Today I heard, again, that there is religion and there is logic, one or the other, mutually exclusive. But that’s not the case. Quite the opposite, without God we wouldn’t have logic or any foundation or absolute standard for anything. One logical argument I have never seen refuted is the cosmological argument for God.

1. Everything that has a beginning as a cause.
2. The universe had a beginning.
3. Therefore the universe has a cause.

That cause needs to be uncaused and transcendent, meaning above and beyond all matter and time, and we call that cause “God.”

There are other arguments like it. Another one of my favorites is that of absolute moral law.

1. An absolute moral law requires a moral lawgiver
2. There is an absolute moral law.
3. Therefore there is a moral lawgiver.

Point 2 would be the most attacked one. My question is: “Is it right or wrong to torture and kill 5 year old girls?” – The answer for any atheist must be “I can’t say.” The only possible answer is that they dislike it, or they don’t approve of it personally, but they can’t say that it’s either right or wrong because they don’t have an absolute standard. Saying that our morals are shaped by society simply removes the problem one level; it’s still one person or many persons setting the standard based on their opinions, nothing more.
We all know the answer to the original question though: It’s wrong. Why can we say that? Because God set an absolute standard for right and wrong.
Some people are more fallen and evil than others and actually delight in horrible treatments like that, thinking it’s the right thing to do, but that really doesn’t make it so.

Only with God can we have a standard for what is good and what is evil, what is right and what is wrong, and logic (among other things) helps us figure that out. God gave us the ability to think, let’s do it and think these issues through!

Related posts:

1. God of the Gaps
2. Ethics without Religion
3. D’Souza v Hitchens
4. Challenge on impeccability
5. Answer to the Challenge!