For example, secular theories cannot show why moral standards obligate. Philosophers have attempted to show this by basing moral obligation on abstract ideas (Plato), logical deduction (Kant), the idea of utility (Bentham, Mill), intuition (Moore), feeling (Hume). All these philosophers have adequately refuted one another. Moral standards can be obligatory only if their source is a person who deserves absolute obedience and reveals his will to human beings. But that leaves us with the responsibility