religion and morality

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Moral Conventionalism: There are no objective moral facts. Statements of the form “x is right/good/moral” mean “My society approves of x” and statements of the form “x is wrong/bad/immoral” mean “My society disapproves of x”.Moral Subjectivism: There are no objective moral facts. Statements of the form “x is right/good/moral” mean “I approve of x” and statements of the form “x is wrong/bad/immoral” mean “I disapprove of x”.

The Good consists in always doing what God wills at any particular moment.

-Emil Brunner

The Divine Imperative

Our moral duties are constituted by the commands of a holy and loving God.

-William Lane Craig

The existentialist, on the contrary, finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven. There can no longer be any good… Dostoevsky once wrote: 'If God did not exist, everything would be permitted'; and that, for existentialism, is the starting point. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself.

-Jean-Paul Sartre

The Divine Command Theory:

The Divine Command Theory: There are objective moral facts.

The Divine Command Theory: There are objective moral facts. Statements of the form “x is right/good/moral” mean “God approves of x”

The Divine Command Theory: There are objective moral facts. Statements of the form “x is right/good/moral” mean “God approves of x” and statements of the form “x is wrong/bad/immoral” mean “God disapproves of x”.

The Divine Command Theory: There are objective moral facts. Statements of the form “x is right/good/moral” mean “God approves of x” and statements of the form “x is wrong/bad/immoral” mean “God disapproves of x”.An objective fact is something that is true independently of what any of us happen to think or feel.

The Creation Argument

1) God created everything.2) “Everything” includes objective

moral facts.3) God created objective moral facts.