Atheists often quip that if you need a God or the fear of Hell to be a good person, then you’re not a good person. This misses the point. When Christians say that there’s no morality without God, we don’t mean that without punishment we cannot be good. We mean that without God, there’s no such thing as good.
When Harari and his fellow materialists insist that humans are just random interactions of subatomic particles, all claims about justice and oppression are reduced to personal preference. The most heinous crimes are unfortunate and inconvenient, but nothing more. In this view, slavery, the Holocaust, the Gulags, and all the other horrors of history are of no more moral significance than when a high school kid mixes chemicals in the lab. It’s all just matter in motion.
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