What’s interesting is when you delve into the source of the higher moral code, you come to the conclusion that it must exist outside of a god. Let’s concede that there is a god for the sake of the argument, are they someone worth worshipping for being good if they themselves created good? This opens a whole new level of arguments such as do you worship him because you fear reprisal from god? Do you not worry that god could change his mind and make murder legal suddenly, since it is entirely up to him, and would that then make it morally required to do?
Arguably, even if someone was religious, it is not difficult to reason that morality exists separately and empirically, so I don’t need a book to tell me that banging roadkill is wrong to know it is wrong.
What’s interesting is when you delve into the source of the higher moral code, you come to the conclusion that it must exist outside of a god. Let’s concede that there is a god for the sake of the argument, are they someone worth worshipping for being good if they themselves created good? This opens a whole new level of arguments such as do you worship him because you fear reprisal from god? Do you not worry that god could change his mind and make murder legal suddenly, since it is entirely up to him, and would that then make it morally required to do?
Arguably, even if someone was religious, it is not difficult to reason that morality exists separately and empirically, so I don’t need a book to tell me that banging roadkill is wrong to know it is wrong.