Unreasonable Faith: How William Lane Craig Overstates the Case for Christianity by Fodor James

Author:Fodor, James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hypatia Press
Published: 2018-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

Relativism and Universalism

Craig says that for moral values to be objective they must be right or wrong ‘independently of whether anybody believes it to be so’. Obviously by ‘anybody’ Craig must mean ‘anybody apart from God’, since Craig’s account of morality is dependent on the judgements of God, and presumably God is ‘somebody’. The idea seems to be that it is not sufficient merely for some individuals or groups of people to believe that something is right or wrong; rather there needs to be some objective sense in which facts of rightness and wrongness are independent of parochial human opinion. Behind this is an assumption that if God believes something to be right or wrong, then it really is objectively right or wrong. Human opinion is deemed to be subjective and insufficient to ground morality, while divine judgement is considered objectively transcendent. While this premise is likely quite intuitive to Craig, it is nevertheless an additional assumption that he does not really defend in any depth. In particular, others have argued that truly objective morality requires a standard independent of anyone’s opinion – including God. I discuss this issue at more depth in the subsequent section covering premise three of Craig’s moral argument.

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