Thursday, March 18, 2010

Is God immoral and pro-choice persons are not?

We have just completed a three-week lecture series on atheism as part of our "Developing Daniels." One of the resources was Ravi Zacharias' book "The End of Reason." On pages 59-60 he is making an argument for moral absolutes being the foundation of an existence for God. There he reveals this episode:

"Some years ago, the well-known astronomer Hugh Ross and I were taking part in a radio talk show at Ohio State University. We were discussing some theme related to the origin of the universe when an irate woman called in and began to attack us with a volley of words. Her charge was that our conversation was really nothing more than a smoke screen for reversing Roe versus Wade and taking away a woman's right to an abortion. Remember, we were taking about the origin of the universe. Throughout her tirade she repeatedly insisted, 'It's my moral right to do what I choose to do with my body!'

Finally, when she paused for a breath, I said, 'All right ma'am, since you brought it up, I'd like to ask you a question. Can you explain something to me? When a plane crashes and some die while others live, a skeptic calls into question God's moral character, saying that he has chosen some to live and others to die on a whim; yet you say it is your moral right to choose whether the child within you should live or die. Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral. When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right.'

There was a pin-drop silence.

A person may dismissively say that he or she does not see a moral order. But I strongly suspect that the real issue is not an absence of moral order in the world but the insistence on determining for oneself what is good and what is evil, in spite of what we intuitively know to be true. Let's be honest. To believe that there is no moral order, one must assume knowledge of what a moral order would look like, if there were one."

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