(April 5, 2016 at 6:11 pm)Time Traveler Wrote:(April 5, 2016 at 5:07 pm)SteveII Wrote: For me to decide/do such a thing, yes, it would be morally wrong. For God, no.
So God operates by one moral standard, and humans another. You say it would be wrong for you to do such things, but if God told you to murder men, women, children, infants, cattle, sheep, camels and donkeys, would you do it?
This reminds me very much of the Milgram experiment. Christians might be willing to bypass their own personal concept of morality if a perceived authority figure is telling them to do it. Because then they are not held accountable for the action; they do not experience guilt.
But in this case it's not an actual deity giving them commands. It's a preacher or a pastor or a religious leader or a voice in their head.
