Discussion with an Atheist Caller

One of the clips over at DJEM TV, this is the radio show from May 4, 2009:

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[AndThenSome]

One can easily dismiss your moral argument by using one of your favorite examples--why killing babies for fun is wrong--because a naturalistic, Darwinian explanation can be invoked to explain it.

To put it simply, any individual or group which killed their babies for fun would have been doomed to extinction. Loving, protective and nurturing parents would naturally have more offspring who would survive to breeding age, and those would in turn have more offspring, and so on. Even in the cold indifference of natural selection, not killing babies for fun just makes sense.

Moreover, your might-makes-right morality is fatally flawed using the same example. In your mind, your god is the ultimate authority: if he says it's good, it's good. End of story. Taken to its logical conclusion, then, he could decide at any moment that killing babies for fun is the ultimate expression of goodness, and you would be obliged to agree.

You could argue, and have, that your god would never do such a thing because he is a good god, but this is self-refuting because your god dictates what is right and wrong in the first place. Who are you to tell your god killing babies for fun is wrong?

Ultimately, if Christian morality was so life-changing, miraculous, and superior, one would expect to see the prisons overflowing with atheists and other nonbelievers, but this is far from reality. One would also expect to find the largely Christian nation of the United States to have significantly lower rates of crime and divorce and STDs when compared with similar, less religious countries, but this isn't the case, either.

And let's not forget, since you brought it up, that Hitler believed he was doing "God's work

[AndThenSome]

make that "God's work."