{"id":60125,"date":"2016-01-05T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=60125"},"modified":"2015-12-31T09:57:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T16:57:37","slug":"the-moral-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/05\/the-moral-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moral Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/OxiAikEk2vU\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Before I took a break for Advent I <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/24\/the-problem-of-pain\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted a quotation<\/a>\u00a0from Ravi Zacharias which related to what is known as &#8220;The Moral Argument&#8221; for the existence of God. I had intended to do a longer post on this subject at some point in the future because\u00a0I think it&#8217;s one of the more interesting arguments in favour of theism.<\/p>\n<p>While on Facebook these last few weeks, I was talking with an atheist and, try as I might, I couldn&#8217;t get him to even understand the argument itself.<\/p>\n<p>Was I saying that atheists couldn&#8217;t tell the difference between right and wrong? No.<\/p>\n<p>Was I saying that atheists were incapable of doing\u00a0good deeds? No.<\/p>\n<p>In the end I found the following video from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reasonablefaith.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reasonable Faith<\/a>. Although it didn&#8217;t appear to help in that particular conversation, I think it&#8217;s one of the most\u00a0accessible explanations of this argument for the existence of God:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OxiAikEk2vU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I took a break for Advent I posted a quotation\u00a0from Ravi Zacharias which related to what is known as &#8220;The Moral Argument&#8221; for the existence of God. I had intended to do a longer post on this subject at some point in the future because\u00a0I think it&#8217;s one of the more interesting arguments in favour of theism. While on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3468,1172,3467,542,2030],"class_list":["post-60125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-aquinas","tag-atheism","tag-atheist","tag-morality","tag-theism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60125"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60198,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60125\/revisions\/60198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}