Why do some people think the moral argument is a good one?

[metis]

In other words, a social contract is one source of morals but it is subject to a variety of factors.

Agreed, and this was the essence of what I was saying in my post #12.

 

[Quintessence]

Perhaps you can provide an example? I've never heard of someone being able to, for instance, show how they know God is a moral being and enforces and cares about objective morality.

Honestly, I would not be the best person to ask, especially since I simply respect the stories of other traditions and take the spinners at their word. As an outsider, it is not my place to tell the story for them - they are the ones who get to decide what the story is. And, for them, the story is their god does have that attribute. Some say they know this through prophets, some put for philosophical arguments. I don't really care about their arguments. It's not my tradition, and they don't need to justify their story to me. Their tales don't make much sense to me, but I wager mine don't make much sense to them either.