Emergence

It seems to me that each of us have intuitions that are guided by a sense of moral obligation. In fact, it’s the very thing that makes morality tick. Even the relativist who denies moral absolutes feels obligated to tell you so because it’s the right and good thing to do. Those who cry out for injustice; for fairness; for the greater good, all do so because they feel morally obliged.

But where does this sense of moral obligation come from?

If I drop a box of alphabet cereal in the ground, and it somehow spells the sentence “take out the trash,” would I feel obliged to do so? Not really, because the combination of letters was a result of chance. If there is no God, then moral obligation is an illusion, there is no basis for obligation because our impulses are simply a result of chance. See where I’m going with this?

The point I am making is that we are not just aware of morality, but we feel responsible to behave as such. When somebody does something wrong, we are angry at them, why? because we are appealing to a standard of behavior that we expect them to know about.

Moral obligation and moral responsibility only makes sense if you infer a moral authorship; a mind behind the blueprint of morality. To me, this screams the existence of God.