Should our moral values ​​depend on religion? The question of whether morality is dependent or independent of religion is an important topic in the philosophy of religion. Louis P. Pojman illustrated this point in a Socratic passage from the Euthyphro: “Does God love goodness because it is good, or is it good because God loves it?” (Pojman 154). Individuals who assert that moral values ​​are created, dependent on, and controlled by God believe in Divine Command Theory. On the other hand, atheist existentialists, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, believe that our moral values ​​are independent of God, which leaves morality as a value created by humans. To understand Jean-Paul Sartre's view on morality and religion, we must describe his philosophical view. This view is known as atheistic existentialism and according to Sartre “asserts that if God does not exist, there is at least a being in which existence precedes essence, a being that exists before it can be defined by any concept, and that this the being is man, or, . . . human reality” (Peterson 622). In other words, he believed that in a world without God, values ​​still exist, but these values ​​are created only after the birth of human beings. For example, when humans are born, they begin to create concepts with the human mind, and as a result, the rational mind begins to create moral values ​​in the world. According to Sartre, moral values ​​come after human experiences, which means that “existence precedes essence” (Peterson 622). The notion of existence preceding essence implies that in a world without God, the responsibility falls in our hands. That is, the responsibility to be judges of all our moral values. Consequently, according to Sartre, the existentialist “this… medium of paper… Does philosophy objectively answer the question of morality and ethics? No, since human knowledge is limited. However, as the phenomenologist might say, the answer may not be as valuable as the experience itself. Works Cited Peterson, Michael L.. Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Print.Pojman, Louis P.. Philosophy of Religion. Long Grove Illinois: Waveland Press, 2009. Print.Pojman, Louis P., and Lewis Vaughn. “Virtue ethics”. The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 403. Print. "Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy". Divine command theory. Np, nd Web May 31, 2014. “Encyclopedia of Internet Philosophy.” Phenomenology. Np, nd Web May 31 2014. .