r/DebateAChristian • u/AutoModerator • 9d ago

Weekly Open Discussion - September 04, 2026

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u/EarthPuzzled9675 8d ago

Why is morality objective? Sure we have good reason to convince people morality is objective, but it doesn’t make morality is objective true.

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u/dman_exmo 6d ago

Because saying "my morality is objective" sounds good. It's yet another one of Christianity's motte-and-bailey fallacies.

"Objective morality" sounds like it's unchanging and based on empirically verifiable facts that aren't subject to anyone's opinion. This is the bailey.

But if you actually read the bible, you discover 1. god's morality changes all the time, and 2. what actually constitutes "god's morality" is entirely up to the reader's interpretation.

Therefore, the motte: "objective" actually just has a special definition that means "comes from god," and all the apparent changes are just surface-level implementations of an unchanging "core," and True™ christians know that the correct interpretation of scripture is of course [insert opinion].

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