Objective or Subjective Morality?

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:00]Christians love to poke fun at atheists for not having some sort of moral authority to answer to because we don't believe in God. Well, some might poke fun at you, but just pointing out the obvious isn't necessarily fun. Most of the time we pity you and we pray for you, but I can throw an accusation right back at you. Atheists like to make money by throwing out baseless accusations without much or any evidence to support it and do so by creating entire accounts based on trying to tear that religion down, which is a religion that they don't actually believe is true and never bothered to do it for any other religion in the entirety of the world.

[00:00:35]I dare you to try it with Islam. And somehow that making our sense of morality subjective and unreliable.

[00:00:42]Yeah, that's pretty much it. If you don't have an authority higher than yourself, then it's all arbitrary. You have no basis that it you works as a universal rule. You can't say murder is wrong if nothing tells you that murder is wrong. You're just all agreeing, but if anyone else in that group does not agree, you don't have a right to tell them the opposite. But I think the same can be said for Christians because although you point to God as this moral authority, you don't follow all of his commandments and instructions and moral takes. Well, we try to, but the whole point of the law was to set was to show us that we can't. The whole point of Christ was that we cannot save ourselves. Everything we do is out of gratitude for salvation. So, we strive to be like him, but we'll never succeed.

[00:01:28]Now, if you're referring to the Old Covenant, that wasn't even given to us.

[00:01:32]That was given to the Jews. So, you got to look at the audience. You definitely don't follow all of the ones in the Old Testament except when you're pointing to the homosexuality verses in Leviticus.

[00:01:42]Oh, I don't need to do that. I've got Romans chapter 1.

[00:01:45]And you for sure don't follow the new covenant law of loving your enemy, selling all of your possessions, taking care of the widow and the vulnerable and the orphan. First off, the New Testament's not a law.

[00:01:57]The New Testament is freedom in Christ.

[00:02:00]It's about salvation and forgiveness.

[00:02:02]But as far as doing all the things, yeah, actually we do as a church. Now, we were never commanded to sell all of our possessions. That was a test for one rich guy, and that was the choice of the early church when they were starting out to give them funding for doing all these things. But the church, faith-based groups, are the number one source of humanitarian aid in history, and it's not even close.

[00:02:27]Show me an atheist organization that even comes close to doing what Christianity does for food banks and prison ministries and orphanages and most hospitals. They all started with faith-based groups. What have you done?

[00:02:42]So, if you guys aren't listening to your moral authority and you're just kind of picking and choosing what you want to follow, then what actually dictates your morality?

[00:02:51]God does. We can never be like God. We just try out of gratitude. That's why we need him. And how can we as atheists trust that your morality is any less subjective than our morality? Oh, you can't. You you can't understand it at all. And you won't. Cuz you can't.

[00:03:10]You won't and you can't. Because the gospel is foolishness to those who are perishing. The Bible already predicted what your thoughts and answers would be.

[00:03:18]You can never completely understand it until you're in it. Because you enjoy your sin too much to give it up. So, you're looking for all these reasons to discount the one thing that constantly holds you accountable.

[00:03:31]God.

[00:03:32]I would argue that your morality is dictated by society as all of our moralities are. No, it just looks like that because the society that you're currently living in was based off of biblical values. So, you got it backwards. As corrupted as it is now, the evidence is still there. So, if there's a Christian out there, please feel free to respond to this video and let me know what you think. Well, that's what I have to say, but I have a question for you and I hope you'll actually answer this. Why are atheists so upset when we say we'll pray for them? If you don't believe our God is real and we're just saying empty words to the air, what does it matter that we're praying for you without your permission? Why can't you just accept the sentiment that we care about you?