Prof. Gerard Casey writes about the contradictions of atheism.
If atheism is correct, then there is no free will or purpose or meaning or intention. Then the phenomenon of choice is an illusion, and if choice is an illusion,
ethics can have no purchase. Why should morality of any kind, exercise any influence on us, once we know that it’s an illusion?
Given the persistence of residual Christian morality, even in our increasingly post-post-Christian society, it is likely that atheists will be, for the most part, well-behaved members of society, honest workers, and loving parents. But true as this may be, the question remains: what, apart from their parasitic reliance on Christian norms, justifies their morality beyond the absolute minimum of the prohibition of in-group violence against person and property?
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