Atheist say morality comes from evolution. ....okay so I should be justified to kill in order to survive right?
If morality is evaluated purely at the functional level, then we end up making purely existential leaps, like Nietzsche made, which is why the atheist moral challenge falls apart. If morality is this existential leap, then there is no way to justify living one way over another way.
This was Nietzsche's whole point, that the Super Man would decide his own right and wrong basically because he was super.
You know, a young man approached Jesus and asked him what the greatest law was. In the Mosaic text there were over six hundred and thirteen laws, and the moral philosophers of the day would pit them against one another and end up producing even more complex laws, (ad infinitum, ad nauseum.)
Jesus summed up the law as such: "You shall love the lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind. And you shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Fascinating that Jesus did not reduce the Law into just one commandment, but into two!
You see, we have no reason to love our neighbor unless our neighbor is made in the image of God and has essential dignity. For dignity to have meaning though, it cannot be contrived, tacked on, or otherwise an addendum to something we have already described as simply---- time + matter + chance= our existence. ....
We cannot complain that some people in the world are treated as if they were animals, and then scientifically prove that we basically are just animals..... we need a reference point to which is outside of time+matter+chance. That would our creator our Father shown to us through the person of Jesus. We're waiting on you God.
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