My views on objective morality

[bennyboy]

I'm not sure I agree with your analogy. God has given plenty of warnings and advice in the Bible to prevent people from doing immoral acts; that's the cover you speak of. Whether you listen to the warnings or not is up to you.

A warning is a warning. A physical impediment is a physical impediment. A parent who knows that his child is likely to stick a knife in a socket, and does nothing but give warnings (cuz you know, children are supposed to get free will even if it kills them?) is a criminally negligent parent. Any child who realizes that his father has such a twisted nature would be a fool to listen to anything he says.

That depends on whether the child has reached the age of reason. If they have not, then they are unable to commit sins in the eyes of God, and so are allowed into Heaven. Likewise, if a child has reached the age of reason but has confessed, they would go to Heaven also.

It seems to me that if confessing allows one to go to Heaven, then Heaven will be filled mainly with Catholics, but not because of any particular quality of goodness, or even a real intent to serve God's law.

If this is the best kind of justice that God can arrange, and the best future that God can promise me, then I'll pass-- on Heaven, on the God who operates so foolishly, and on even the IDEA of God, which is completely incoherent.

By your subjective standards of morality perhaps it doesn't, but by God's standard it is.

Because God is magi-special, and no matter how much harm He does or allows, it's all aight in the end? See, if I knew FOR SURE God existed, I might have to throw up my hands and accept this. But this isn't the case. Clearly, the truth is that the God idea is stretched beyond all credibility, and so he must be endowed by his human makers with incredible authority-- the authority to call "good" the many, many things in the world that are clearly evil.