Originally posted by seer
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To me, this is fundamental. Murder is wrong. End of story. I do not know how to put it any differently.
To you, murder is wrong when God says it is wrong, and right when he says it is right.
Those terrorists who fly aeroplanes into skyscrapes, they thought what they were doing was morally right, because they believed what they were doing was what God wanted. Just like the Hebrews committing genocide:
Deu 25:19 Therefore it shall come about when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance to [o]possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.
This is the morality that you advocate, seer. Personally, I find it abhorrent.
You may not like that "emotional" case, but at its base, that is what you are doing too. Let us be honest here, seer, the point of this thread is you wanting to show the deficiencies in atheist morality.
The reality is that it has exposed the deficiencies in your own Christian morality.
And which atheists agree that murder is wrong? The followers of Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin?
Unlike Christians. And yet plenty of Christians were slave owners only a century or so ago. Is slavery wrong under a Christian moral? It depends who you ask. They all worship the same God, they all get their morality from the same God, they are all in communion with the same God, and yet they have very different answers to a very basic moral question.
And yet the basis of your argument is that you have an objective standard for your morality. Sad really.
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