Why Morality is the Biggest Problem to an Atheist.

There are many things that logically cannot make sense in an Atheistic worldview. 

But from reading several books, one argument stands out among the rest.

Atheists cannot provide any sensical basis for an absolute morality.

As a Christian, morality makes sense, because an all-wise God shows us what is good and bad from his perfect Word.

But an Atheist, believes there is no God and therefore have no proper explanation for morality.

In their worldview, people are nothing more than just chemical accidents. Then why should these accidents uphold a sense of good and evil? And what is the basis upon which we give authority to? It does not make sense.

Here are what some Atheist may argue is the basis for morality:

1. Atheist: Morality is what makes us happy.

Yet in this answer, we still don't have a basis. Happiness is different for everyone. What a retired golfer and a 20 year old drug addict find happiness in is completely different. And what if a mass-killer finds happiness in murder. Does that make it right for him.  Happiness changes for everyone and does not provide a good authority over why we should be compelled to follow it.

2. Atheist: Morality evolved for our survival value.

Survival does not equal good and bad. If our morality is survival based, then is killing off the diseased and elderly ok. Does stealing and lying become ok if it increases our chance of survival. If survival = morality, then would eating your children in a poverty-stricken Papa New Guinea in the 1800s become ok since their just trying to survive. Survival is a weak basis because it gives us nothing but mere opinion of what really helps us survive. If this idea is true, the world becomes nothing more than a dog-eat-dog world.

3. Atheist: Morality is a social construct that society agrees upon.

If the atheist believes this, then was cruel slavery morally right in the early 1800s. It was a social construct that society thought was ok. If morality is a social construct, then morality can't be absolute. Also, was Hitler right when the society of Germany thought killing Jews was ok. Social constructs create nothing more than a government based morality. You can't condemn past societies if morality is just an ever-changing opinion.

4. Atheist: Morality just exists. We don't need to have a basis.

The problem with this is that if morality does not have a basis, the why should society enforce punishment for rules that have no basis. It is unjust in that worldview. To believe in good and bad, we must logically ask ourselves why is that so.

So hopefully you enjoyed learning about a argument that stumps the Atheist worldview!