R.C. Sproul

Otherwise, there can be no basis for ethics other than anarchy, and anarchy inevitably produces tyranny.

It may be the tyranny of the majority.

It may be the tyranny of the lobbyists.

It may be the tyranny of the vested interest groups.

but it will obviously and inevitably lead to the tyranny of the strong and reduce life to the status of the jungle.

You are right now living in a sophisticated, technological, civilized, modern jungle.

That's what happens when you abandon the sense of moral absolutes.

Then the law becomes utterly positivistic, that is, particularistic, rather than universal.

There is no standard of law except that which the power wants.

That's jungle.

That's jungle rule.

That's the survival of the fittest.

That's rule by strength, not by truth.

What Kant is saying is that that's exactly what will happen in a society that abandons moral absolutes.

That's why he argues that we have to live as if there's a God.

He said, we can't know whether or not there's a God intellectually.

I disagree with him.

He came to that conclusion, but he didn't come to the conclusion, therefore, let us live as if there is no God.

Let us live as if all things are permissible.

Now, he understood that the survival of civilization was dependent upon the God hypothesis.