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...

an affection for justice, which is directed toward what is good in itself independently of its relation to us.[11] There is nothing wrong with the affection for advantage, on this view, but morality requires that it be ranked under the affection for justice. If this ranking is observed, it will have the effect that we do what will be to our advantage only if it is consistent with morality. Morality on the view I am defending requires us to treat all human beings as having the same worth (the second

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