A Fashionable Mantra

"With no God there is no morality." This fashionable mantra is a persuasive refinement of a false philosophy wreaking destruction and mayhem on human happiness. This blatant and illogical maxim manages to express in very sparse prose the incredibly ancient debate over morality being something that is divinely given and one that is utterly determined by human beings themselves. If you accept that morality comes from a God then you have to accept that he controls every aspect of your life. If you cannot be moral without a God, then ultimately accepting religion into your life is paramount to living a life of morality. So be definition, an atheist cannot be moral, and can only live a life of immorality, no matter what his or her standpoint is, philosophy, actions and lifestyle. According to this religious philosophy, to live a moral life one must subjugate one’s own ego and actions to an omnipotent and omniscient God who is the ultimate force for morality and the ultimate judge of your own personal morality. Therefore, to act for oneself, to decide for oneself what is moral and what is not is inherently a selfish and therefore immoral act. Theoretically, even if you are ignorant of a God and know not what you do, you are being immoral, because you haven’t subjugated your entire existence to this moral deity. You must live by “faith” in your God, take all his commandments to you as law, live only by God’s truth, determined by him for you, or you are not living morally and in fact have a fundamental and selfish existence at the core of your life. Again, this doesn’t have any bearing on whether you are doing moral acts, living decently or practicing what a religious organization thinks of as moral and good acts; without a belief in a God you cannot be a moral and upright individual.