Good without God? A Logical Impossibility
November 11th, 2009 by Father Bill Garrott, OP
During the month of November, the Coalition of Reason, a New York-based group promoting atheism, is running a campaign in some of the city’s subways stations featuring posters that ask New Yorkers if they are “good without God,” assuring them that, if they answer in the affirmative, they are in the company of at least a million other Big Apple residents. Father Gabriel Gillen, O.P., a friar of the Province of St. Joseph, took the organizers to task in an opinion column that appeared in the New York Daily News Nov. 8, 2009. The ad, claiming that moral behavior doesn’t ultimately hinge on the existence of God or a transcendent reality, “contains a theoretical defect,” wrote Fr. Gillen, arguing that “in the final analysis, [people] are all still wired to do the right thing when it counts and live their lives as though God does exist.” Click here to read the column.
