That yucky feeling you get when you see Ryan Lochte might mean God exists

1. If you believe Lochte’s behavior was wrong, you are affirming the existence of “wrong.” 

Let’s get this out of the way.  Lochte didn’t reach the depths of “wrong” that some athletes have managed to reach. Though it’s never good when your drunken rampage causes someone to brandish their gun, Lochte didn’t get anyone killed. He probably didn’t set out to do anything but celebrate his medal.  But maligning the Olympic host city and embarrassing the nation which provided your Speedo is not ideal.  And letting your friends get detained in a foreign country just doesn’t seem fair. C.S. Lewis wrote that he was once an atheist because of all of the unfairness in the world.

He wrote:

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it? A man feels wet when he falls into water, because man is not a water animal: a fish would not feel wet.

In other words, the fact that you feel so upset at Lochte’s brazen arrogance means that you recognize that brazen arrogance is actually wrong.