In November, I’ll be doing a series in response to a video I saw on YouTube the other day. I watched some of Alyssa Grenfell’s videos – she’s an ex-Mormon and I liked learning more about the Mormon beliefs from her perspective. However, a couple of weeks ago, she posted a video titled The Truth About Religion, and I will link it below if you’d like to watch it in its entirety. I just felt like I could try to address some of the misconceptions within the video, so this will spread over a couple of weeks. 

In the very beginning of the video, Alyssa said she struggled leaving the Mormon church, as at that point, she still bought into the fact that you need religion or God not only for yourself, but also so your children can be moral, and then she ends that segment by saying after a long struggle, she is an atheist and does not ascribe to that belief anymore. 

My point is – and one that Charlie Kirk made all the time – if you have no standard for morality, then what is morality? 

“You must be an honest atheist and acknowledge that morality is definitionally subjective without a belief in God. That you cannot be an atheist and believe in objective morality. It is an impossibility and true atheists will acknowledge this.”

– Charlie Kirk

You’ve probably heard of a conscience before. In Genesis, God made Adam and Eve in His image, and told them what was good and what was bad. There was a choice made to obey God or disobey him.

“For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.”

– Romans 2:14-16, King James Version

The Bible shows that people understand what is right and what is wrong, and that moral standard comes from God. But just a chapter before this, in Romans 1, the Bible explains how rebellion and sin hardens people’s hearts against Godly morality. 

Now, I agree with Alyssa…religion doesn’t make you moral. In fact, religion can sometimes be the opposite. But you need God to set the standard for morality. 

Below is Alyssa’s video, and over the next few weeks, we’ll keep diving in.

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