The Relationship Between Morality And Hitchens

After watching both videos and based on my own experience I would infer that Al Sharpton has a stronger case regarding morality. Although Hitchens had very good arguments about how we don’t really need God to be moral in this world, Al Sharpton pointed out that if it really was up to us to decide what is moral and immoral we would definitely change it every four years. Al Sharpton pointed out that if we need someone that’s above us to be in charge of what morality means. I can see where he’s coming from because without believing and having God or religion in charge of morality, then we would manipulate it to fulfill our own desires. I also can understand where Hitchens is coming from regarding the fact that I know people that have not been brought up in a religious environment and they have good values and morals. However, Al Sharpton made a good point when he questioned Hitchens about how he would explain that atheist people never did anything evil and only religious people have done evil things. This is definitely a hard topic to debate because there are different angles and perspectives. …show more content…
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