Is Goodness Without God Good Enough? A Debate on Faith, Secularism, and Ethics (Biblia.com)

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Morality and religion: intimately wed, violently opposed, or something else? Discussion of this issue appears in pop culture, the academy, and the media—often generating radically opposed views. At one end of the spectrum are those who think that unless God exists, ethics is unfounded and the moral life is unmotivated. At the other end are those who think that religious belief is unnecessary...

goodness without God. When Professor Kurtz says, “Goodness without God is good enough,” he’s raising in a provocative way the question of the basis of moral values. In a recent book he helpfully distinguishes three views in answer to this question.[4] Theism maintains that moral values are grounded in God. Humanism maintains that moral values are grounded in human beings. And nihilism maintains that moral values have no ground at all and are therefore ultimately illusory and nonbinding. This analysis

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