On the matters of faiths, beliefs, sciences and worldviews.

In one of Ray’s latest posts, he discusses morality. Yes, again. He still holds the opinion that without God, people are completely free to redefine morality however they want, so that war is peace, murder is life and hate is love. Of course, anyone with a speck of intelligence knows this just isn’t true, that society can’t just make anything “moral”. However, the examples that Ray chooses to give tell us something about him. Let’s look at one…

If the government (society) says homosexuals marrying each other is good, it moves from one generation believing it is evil and it becomes good and acceptable.

…and then another.

If the government says it’s okay to kill blacks, Jews and homosexuals because only the fit should survive, what is morally evil changes to that which is morally good in their eyes.

In the first example, homosexuality is portrayed as something bad, something that one generation “believes” is actually evil. What Ray sees as a decline in moral integrity is the fact that homosexuality is more and more tolerated (and, as we all know, tolerance has no place in Christianity!). In the second example, he describes a government that sees black, Jewish and homosexual people as “unfit”, taking care not to insinuate too obviously that he could think the same. I suspect that the only reason homosexuals are even in the list of people that it currently is immoral to kill, is that not even Ray has the balls to wish those who disgust him dead publicly.

In essence, Ray has no problem calling homosexuals downright evil, but he draws the line at actually killing them for that reason alone. How noble of him.

Now, let’s discuss his premise of good and evil, shall we? Ray is under the impression that society or governments are free to define anything they wish as moral or immoral, on opinion alone. This is far from reality, as with most of Ray’s rabid rantings. His first example of something that is today “bad”, but in tomorrow’s Godless society would be “good”, is abortion. Abortion (or “killing babies”, as Ray so colorfully describes it) is never a “good” thing, and I don’t know anyone who’s ever made the claim that it is. It is, and always will be, an “evil” in the traditional sense. However, modern, intelligent people are able to realize that sometimes it is a necessary evil, a negative act that can sometimes lead to good and positive results. A young girl, impregnated against her will, can be allowed to live instead of being sentenced to a horribly cruel and painful death. It will likely never be a “good” thing to take a life, in any way, shape or form, but it might often be necessary.

Equal rights for homosexuals is one of those hot-button examples that everyone uses just to get attention. However, being gay or lesbian has nothing to do with morality. One has to wonder why homosexuality is so prevalent in society today, but among those who think it’s disgusting or immoral, not a single person identifies as gay themselves. Statistics alone almost conclusively proves that it’s more about self-hatred and fear, than actual Christian values or morality.

Lastly, the killing. Not the killing of blacks, Jews or homosexuals specifically, but killing altogether. Has anyone ever claimed that murdering another person was “good” or “moral”. Even Hitler? Again, I maintain that killing another human being (or even another animal, for that matter) is always a bad thing – evil, but sometimes nonetheless necessary. Not in the sense that it’s necessary to ethnically cleanse human populations, but in the sense that we often allow killing in self-defense and as capital punishment, and we allow the killing of animals for sustenance.

So in conclusion, this is another straw man non-issue, a made-up argument from Ray Comfort to refute something that doesn’t exist. Secular nations have no problems with morality, and in fact, the numbers rather show a correlation between secularism and increased tolerance and decrease in violence. Apparently, being good doesn’t mean anything to Ray unless you’re also Christian, which I suspect is really the heart of the problem: It’s not morality and goodness that is on the decline, it’s religion. It’s Christianity. It’s his particular faith that is losing in numbers, and that’s what scares him.

Oh, and those damn gays, of course. Mustn’t forget them gays…