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moral atrocity

If it’s okay for God to do something, then is it okay for him to command it?

March 14, 2013 by Randal

Vincent asked me an interesting and provocative question. It is also helpful because it goes to the root of many important issues He wrote: Would you agree or disagree with the proposition that if it’s morally OK for God to do something, then it’s OK for Him to command someone else to do it? If […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: ethics, God, Jesus, moral atrocity, moral knowledge, moral law, morality

On William Lane Craig’s defense of the Canaanite genocide (Part 2)

February 9, 2013 by Randal

In my first installment in this series I argued that conservative Christian apologists like William Lane Craig and Paul Copan are at their weakest when they argue that God commanded putative moral atrocities like genocide. And I noted that the interlocutor for my critical discussion would be William Lane Craig’s defense of the Canaanite genocide in […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, ethics, genocide, moral atrocity, moral perception, Old Testament, rape, William Lane Craig

The Problem of the Faulty Moral Perception Faculty

August 17, 2012 by Randal

Many Christians apparently believe that an act like killing and mutilating a child as a devotional act toward a deity can be morally virtuous (i.e. if God commands it, and God can command it because he has commanded it) but raping a child as a devotional act to a deity cannot (because God never would […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: ethics, genocide, metaethics, moral atrocity, moral epistemology, morality, problem of evil

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