The Christian Apologetics Alliance
Answering seekers, equipping Christians, and demonstrating the truth of the Christian worldview
The other night, while I was at an outdoor party and cookout, I got into a very interesting conversation with a friend of a friend. Her outlook on life was quite different from my own, which led me to ask a number of questions to better understand where she was coming from, how she saw life, and what was important to her.
Overall, we were having an engaging, lively conversation about a wide array of topics. [Read more...]
Understandably, atheist and writer, Susan Jacoby, is exasperated:
Newtown seems to expose atheism’s irrelevance and inadequacy in the face of life’s tragedies – death and suffering. However, Jacoby feels that atheism has much to offer the suffering: [Read more...]
Many militant atheists will say, “Christianity screws up everything,” citing warfare, slavery, the Crusades and intolerance.
Christians will generally respond in three different ways:
Does moral relativism make sense? Are all ethical theories equally good and deserving of our respect? Can a moral code be wrong? Should we always tolerate people and cultures who have different moral standards than we do?
One way of examining these questions is to compare two very different versions of the Ten Commandments. We will look at Richard Dawkins’ version and then the Ten Laws of Camp 14 in North Korea. And finally, we will consider the legitimacy of moral relativism in light of these contrasting systems of morality.
Here are Richard Dawkins’ Ten Commandments, from his book The God Delusion:
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