Do we need God for Morality? [Spirituality & Religion]

Obviously the secular answer is a resounding NO.
But if you're a theist who says "yes", i want to hear your reasoning.

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SW-User

My instinct is to say no, but how does one argue against moral relativism without religious morality?

Like obviously I don't think everyone would be raping each other without the Bible. Lots of societies around the world that believe in all kinds of different gods but have similar ideas about morality. I mean in a more abstract sense, it seems that atheists often have to resort to moral relativism in the absence of morality coming from an eternal source.

Pikachu

@SW-User

Because moral relativism depends on what a particular culture might value at any given time.

But if we take something as the goal: eg> human well being, then we have an objective measure of what is moral and what is not.
A culture may deem it permissible to own another human being as property but if we look to human well being, we see that this value is not consistent with morality in respect to that goal.

So how do we know that we should pursue human well-being?
Well dependence on a faith-based origin for morality doesn't answer that question either. How do we know that this god-given model for morality is worth pursuing?
In both cases, the answer is simply "because we decide that it is so".