References:

(1) Deism doctrines explained.

(2) Deism is self-defeating.

(3)Many ‘lukewarm’ or ‘nominal’ Christians today are, in effect, deists.

(4) So of the 4 possible alternatives about God or no God and evil or no evil, only theism is a viable alternative to explain God and evil.

(5) Prager University’s article: “If there is no God, murder isn’t wrong.”

(6) In the secular world, there can only be opinions about morality.

(7) If human beings are nothing but bags of molecules, where does morality come in?

(8) Atheists have no grounds on which to call anything morally right or wrong, other than just an opinion.

(9) Without God what we have is moral relativism.

(10) The first societies in the world to abolish slavery were Western societies rooted in Judeo-Christian values. And so we’re the Western societies the first to affirm human rights, gender equality, racial equality, and to proclaim the value of liberty.

(11) Jacob Neusner.

(12) Roger Scruton.

(13) W. E. H. Lecky.

(14) The violation of the image of God was the foundation for the Hebrew origin of the sanctity of human life.

(15) “The Didache.”

This is episode 87.