Do We Need God for Morality?

Quote of the Day Analysis

“If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Many modern people would look at such a statement and grimace. We’ve dispensed with the idea of God, have we not? Isn’t superstition beneath us?

It may seem shocking, but many people still believe in God; even people of science. It doesn’t necessarily seem to be a mutually exclusive phenomenon for me. Even the most die-hard scientists will tell you, after all, that everything that exists came from the Big Bang… while being unable to explain what the Big Bang really was (aside from a *clears throat* big bang) or how it happened.

Even without that explanation, we can consider what God means psychologically. Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, the clinical psychologist, has posited that God is not-so-simply whatever we deem as being at the top of our hierarchy of values.