Gilbert Keith:
Where does the moral glue come from in a completely atheist society?
It does not suffice for the atheist to say simply: “Immanuel Kant and the Categorical Imperative.”
In the absence of God, there must not merely be the natural law, there must be an authority that promotes the natural law in the civil law. Where does this authority come from if every man is allowed to define his own morality? How does the state build consensus of what the laws should be without reference to an absolute standard? Without such a standard, without religion in alliance with the state **(**not controlling the state), who decides what the laws should be?
If a man says “I shall have as many wives as I like,” shall the law protect him? If a man says, sex with consenting children should be protected by law, shall the law protect him? If an abortionist says I want to kill unborn children, shall the state protect him and all the others just because they have separate moral codes from others. This is a recipe for collective madness.
So by what authority in a totally atheist state would laws of any kind be imposed on the masses at large that would make people more likely to adhere to the general code than to go against it with their own? The natural law and God together … to be sure.
As it was clearly shown through many historical cases atheistic ideologies in power exemplified the sum of all massacres and violations of human dignity. (Again: Atheistic ideologies in power always brought (and bring) into existence a kind of new creed and rituals, can be labeled as neo paganism, idolatry, etc, etc.).
Even agnostics as Charles Maurras recognized the high role the Catholic Church has to play regarding public morality (cfr. my #70).
What we have today? Kant? Natural law? Common good? Golden rule? Common moral values? Non.
Consider, for example, two modern theorists of important influence as Hans Kelsen (1881-1973) and Richard Rorty (1931-). In democracy majorities decide what morality is.
So the choice is clear, whatever religion or non religion you profess:
There is God, there is human nature, there is Truth, there are rights, common social goods and moral values before any Constitution and any State (thus Constitution and State only must recognize and defend them);
Or… Moral relativism, the rule of the strongest, the silent killing of the innocents, materialism at all costs. To sum it up: what we see all around the world. We have eyes, don’t we?
