What are moral objections?

Moral objections are objections to Christianity based on some moral ground. These come in a variety of forms, such as:

• Assertions that Christianity is immoral

• Suggestions that Christianity causes immorality

• Claims that morality isn't even objective

• Areas of conflict with moral views already held by the critic

• Some form of moral dilemma Christianity cannot solve

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An overview of why they don't work.

Moral objections to Christianity are always critically flawed. This is because they inevitably commit various fallacies, the biggest of which is circular reasoning. If Christianity is true, the Christian God is literally THE standard for morality. He created everything, He sustains everything, He owns everything. One could no more accuse God of being evil than accuse a man of trespassing in his own house. Therefore no moral objection could stand against Him. This means any and all moral objections to Christianity must necessarily assume Christianity is false, which is the very point the critic is seeking to prove.​

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There are also scenarios in which critics of Christianity argue against it on the basis of its followers' behavior. They see Christians, or people self-identifying as Christians, acting in immoral ways, and somehow this gets pinned on the Christian faith. To begin with, this obviously fails when the so-called Christian is not ACTUALLY Christian. This does happen quite often, particularly with Adolf Hitler, who certainly was not a Christian, yet it is often claimed he was, simply because everyone likes to compare everything they don't like to him. Anders Breivik, similarly, is occasionally identified as a Christian, yet he himself identifies as an Odinist.

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But even in scenarios where the individual is a genuine Christian, moral objections based on their behavior still do not work, for a range of reasons. The chief of these reasons is that the Christian faith explicitly teaches that Christians, being still in the flesh, are just as sinful as other human beings. Christianity is a process of continuously growing, but this growth is not completed in this life. Thus, pointing to Christians who sin only goes to show that the Bible is 100% correct: Those who claim they have no sin are lying, and the truth is not in them (see 1 John 1:8-10). Sinless perfectionism is a fatal heresy, and those who claim it are not Christians at all.