Speaking of consequences....The proposition that, if there were no god, there would be no objective morality, has some extremely novel consequences if fully and correctly understood.
Objective morality refers to the (alleged/purported/supposed/observed) facts of any given matter or situation that make that thing bad. The existence of such facts is the bad making property. So, when we say that a thing is bad because it causes harm - the modification to objection would suggest that, if there were no god, thing x would not be harmful. Take a second to fully absorb that. This isn't a semantic or epistemic objection - it's an existential claim. This is a description of a reality where, if there were no god, curbstomping an infant would... not... harm... them.
Objective morality refers to the (alleged/purported/supposed/observed) facts of any given matter or situation that make that thing bad. The existence of such facts is the bad making property. So, when we say that a thing is bad because it causes harm - the modification to objection would suggest that, if there were no god, thing x would not be harmful. Take a second to fully absorb that. This isn't a semantic or epistemic objection - it's an existential claim. This is a description of a reality where, if there were no god, curbstomping an infant would... not... harm... them.
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