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  • I really like the way Jmike put it at 20:40 in this show

    In 1 Samuel 15:3, when god commands the Amelekites to be–infants to be slaughtered, that would be "good" under your view. That would be a good thing. So long as it's commanded by the thing–that's not morality at all, that's obedience. There's nothing there about what someone should or should not do. The moral facts can just change on a whim. I don't understand this high ground of morality from theists when theirs is so vacuous and devoid of anything intrinsic to the actual actions. It's actually an extrinsic thing. What makes, like, throwing someone off a building "wrong" is if god puts this extrinsic notion that it's wrong, this command, not that the intrinsic action had anything to do with it, right? It's so divorced from how we actually deal with ethics. So I don't get this move of putting the theist at this high moral ground, I dont get it.

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