Yeah, the crucial difference here is that you can't get from:
To serial killing without making a leap of logic from "out of acceptable ranges" to "serial killing." Because there are plenty of acts that cease to be immoral without a god, but are still legal. One makes a choice independent of disbelief to kill.
However, it's very, very hard to go from the exhortations in many religious texts and by religious leaders to do violence unto sinners and unbelievers to anything but violence.
Quote:"if a person doesn’t think that there is a God to be accountable to, then what’s the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges?"
To serial killing without making a leap of logic from "out of acceptable ranges" to "serial killing." Because there are plenty of acts that cease to be immoral without a god, but are still legal. One makes a choice independent of disbelief to kill.
However, it's very, very hard to go from the exhortations in many religious texts and by religious leaders to do violence unto sinners and unbelievers to anything but violence.
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