My views on objective morality

[LadyForCamus]

 [absolutely did not say God condones rape. Neither do I believe He does. That couldn't be farther from the truth. I believe He condemns rape and I believe He has ruled it as an objectively evil act. So yes, that is also a straw.

How do you know that God condemns rape? Since we have already established that the OT is a 'choose your own adventure' story I won't go into all that, but is there anything in the NT that explicitly prohibits rape? If there isn't, then how do you know God condemns it? If he does condemn it but watches it happen anyway, then he's no better than a sadistic voyeur.

I'm going to try and be careful not to put words in your mouth so bare with me, and I apologize in advance if I make a false assumption about your thoughts and feelings. I'm happy to be corrected if I get it wrong.

You say you don't know why God decided to let nature take its course and allow humans to commit such brutal acts upon each other, but that he must have his reasons because he's God.

I think that as a good person who understands how horrible rape is, you HAVE to tell yourself that God has some explanation unknowable to you, because you can't actually fathom any possible context or circumstance where God allowing these things to happen could be right.

And there is a damn good reason why you can't think of any. There is a reason you have to defer to mysterious explanations. Because no actual explanation makes any moral sense. Not to a compassionate and empathetic person like yourself. You can't think of any good reasons because there aren't any.

And eternal bliss doesn't square the debt in my opinion. Even if these young victims (the raped and murdered child for example) do enter into heaven, they were still robbed of their one and only life on earth. How is that fair?