Image by Shane Pope via FlickrRichard Dawkins continues to run his mouth without anything important to say. Really sad. But I thought that this was a very insightful article. Read the article at the following link.the a-atheism blog: Richard Dawkins: "I am ashamed of my university!"
William Lane Craig, channelling the late Osama bin Laden, has gone public with a claim that murder is morally obligatory if his god commands it, and it is not even murder if the killing is because a god commands it.
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Rather, since our moral duties are determined by God’s commands, it is commanding someone to do something which, in the absence of a divine command, would have been murder.
The act was morally obligatory for the Israeli soldiers in virtue of God’s command, even though, had they undertaken it on their on initiative, it would have been wrong.
On divine command theory, then, God has the right to command an act, which, in the absence of a divine command, would have been sin, but which is now morally obligatory in virtue of that command.
Hey Steven, Do you think the inhabitants would have just moved over and peacefully made room for Israel when they came out of Egypt?
ReplyDeleteHey Marcus; do you think the inhabitants of the pre-Columbian Americas should have just moved over and peacefully made room for the white man when they came out of Europe?
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