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Here's something I heard today:
Let’s begin with a speech delivered by the late Arthur Leff of Yale Law School, 1979, four years before I came here to the land of the free and the home of the brave. This is Professor Leff: “Unless there is a God who is himself Goodness and Justice, … there can be no ultimate basis for law. For if there is no God, nothing can take his place. No human standard—no person, no group of people, no document—is [then] immune to challenge.”[15]
Now, just think about that for a moment. This is ’79, and he’s speaking to law students and to the folks within his context, and he is essentially saying if we remove the notion of the creator God, who, by the nature of his being, establishes the framework of morality and of human existence, then nothing will be able to stand up to challenge.
"Sez who?" Will be the question whenever anyone wants to do what they choose to do.
BTW, Leff was an agnostic.
Here's a good and entertaining listen for about 20 minutes on the "popular notion". He makes some good points and he's a very talented speaker.
A popular notion suggests we should be free to behave however we wish and believe whatever we want, as long as nobody’s harmed. On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg explains why this is an illusion. Discover why true freedom is found in the restrictions.
https://www.truthforlife.org/broadcasts/2025/09/17/obligation-part-2-of-2/
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