pop morality

[Angrboda]

God's righteousness is nothing but the pop morality of several thousand years ago.  First we had the Jews and their version of pop morality.  Then along comes Jesus, and he teaches a different sort of morality, based on blood sacrifice and atonement.  Then we have Mohammed's version which builds on that.   And eventually we get to Baha'ullah's version further on down the road.  You aren't defending a specific morality because they all share the same traits of 'pop morality' regardless of from when and where they come.  You're simply arguing a preference for dogmatic truths, ones that don't change, over those that do.  But your God's righteousness is just another link in a chain of relativistic morals.  It's no different, and no better.  Matter of fact, by its inability to accommodate changes in our knowledge about the world makes it worse in that it is a slave to past errors.  (And yes, Virginia, God's righteousness isn't immune to mistakes.)

But again I am not pushing for one morality over another...

Then we can forget the prohibitions in the bible as arbitrary and meaningless? You're still basing your idea of atonement on a set of standards, elsewise what is there to atone for? Atonement is always atonement for something. All you've done is substitute what you consider to be a moral response to our violating those standards for a punishment based one. If you ask me what keeps me from becoming a Nazi monster then I would say nothing but the inertia of evolved tendencies and culture, which is to say that there is nothing sufficiently substantial to forbid my becoming a Nazi, just that it is improbable. What prevents you from becoming beholden to a specific morality, or are you saying that you have no morals? I think you do, and they include what you consider to be a moral response to your violating God's standards; that itself is a form of morals.