This is a bit of an aside from another one of my classes, but I find it very interesting and I'll leave it here for you all to consider. This article by Shafer-Landau is a philosophical argument that depicts the problem with religious people saying that atheists have no morals because they don't believe in God. The crux of the argument is this: If God decides what is moral, then there is no real objectivity or inherent rightness to morality outside of God's command. If God were to decide that gratuitous torture was moral, then there would be no objective reason for anyone to still believe that it was wrong, despite our current beliefs that it is wrong. However, if God does NOT decide what is moral because there is a moral objectivity inherent in the universe, then God musts recognize some higher law or power above himself that dictates morality.
So which side are good Christians supposed to take? Does God bow to a great Morality Law? Or does He create Morality in a way that would essentially be arbitrary because he would decide morality and immorality by only his own reasoning and not by any inherent good or badness?
It's an interesting debate to think about.
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