I find the statement of morality without the presence of God particularly interesting, mainly because I have never thought that morality has anything to do with God. During my childhood I was punished and humiliated because of my disobedience to the rules set by people who is older then me, and presumably they know better then I do in the subject of righteousness. When I grow up I assumed that my brain automatically link those painful experience to immorality and thus prohibited me to carry out what I had in mind. But I never really give it a hint of doubt that maybe, just maybe there is another explanation for my tendency to bow to the rules. Thanks to the debate between William Lane Craig and Peter Atkins regarding the subject of the existence of God, I have the privilege to shine the light of consciousness on the subject matter.

Basically the premise of the believer is that, without God there is no foundation for morality, or rather God is the foundation of morality itself. For non believer, specifically Atheist, they don’t really need to be moral because to them  everybody will die the same way, regardless of whether they have raped others or not. For Atheist there are no judgement day, no hell or heaven to strive for so what stop them from committing crime to humanity. For Atheist however, they argue that there is no need for God to be a good person, because the advance homosapiens, which is us are hard wired in our brain to be good, base on the Darwinian law of natural selection, if we are not moral, we could wipe out our own species, so it is just natural to us humans to not have sexual intercourse with our brothers and sisters. It has nothing to do with the divine. The argument will go on and on and both parties will quote famous scientist from various field to support their argument.

For me personally, I concur with the believer’s argument that every action we take has its consequences, but, I do not believe that someone up there is keeping score on me and judge me every single moment of my life, and when I die I’ll receive the full “payment” of my deeds. The consequences of my action will arise naturally base on my action and decision with the simple logic of cause and effect, allow me to elaborate. I am an Engineer, although I am not a very good one, Engineers tends to optimize processes to its maximum efficiency. If there is really a God up there, and assumed that God exist in a timeless and space-less realm,  and God has infinite power, keeping track and looking after every single creation individually throughout the cosmos is highly inefficient. I am not implying that God can’t do it, of course God can, God can do anything. But with simple observation from nature, all God’s creation is beautifully Engineered, well balanced and not surprisingly, highly efficient.

There is no way for mere mortals like me to comprehend or understand God’s divine plan, but if, and this is a gargantuous IF, I was given a chance to create the universe, I honestly don’t want to babysit every single one of my creation like noting down whether your next door neighbor’s kid named Bob is naughty or not. I will come up with a system that will keep everything in check on its own, and it will be self sufficient because I couldn’t be bothered, I have other, more Godly things to worry about. You keep track of your own score, if your score is high you will automatically attract good things to happen in your current life or your next life and vice versa.

Now back to human’s perspective, I strongly believe in the law of Karma, and with Karma you don’t need God to be good. Do a bit of study on it, try to understand it and think for yourself, if you are Jebus, what will your father do?