re: Stunning Admission By Renowned Atheist; Decline of Christianity is Hurting Society

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At the end of the day, if your God so chooses, he could kill, or have someone else kill, your entire family and, based on your current worldview, you couldn't condemn it as objectively or subjectively immoral.

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Since God doesn't command people to kill these days, if someone killed my entire family, it would be in direct violation of God's law, giving me every right to condemn it.

God has the right to do what He wants with me, but other humans don't.

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I could have you defending genocide in a heartbeat by pointing to a few Old Testament verses, so don't come at us with this "Oh, you can't objectively condemn a school shooting as bad" crap when you're in the same boat.

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I can certainly condemn a school shooting if it happened tomorrow (or Monday, rather). God's law tells humans that they are not allowed to unlawfully take the lives of others.

You, however, have no basis to condemn genocide of any flavor because without God, morality is nothing more than an individual preference. If you remove God, you remove the necessity for human value and moral absolutes.