[theothermkn]

> For example, why is rape wrong? Easily answered with God: because he said so.

This is exactly the non sequitur that I pointed out. Not even a God’s say-so could change “objective” morality, if it existed. He can change the sea to red, but he can’t change what “red” is in any meaningful way.

Also, the quote has the other suspicious feature of this trope: it assumes that that which is objective is knowable, even tautologically obvious and workable in every case. It’s the “simple matter of programming” of the amateur philosophical world.

My point here is not about the relatively boring questions of God’s existence or of the nature of morality. My point is that those conversations are psychological, not philosophical. They’re the sublimated terror at the unbearable lightness of being, to borrow a titular phrase, which is so raw and unprocessed that it manifests in a hysterical inability to see the absurdity of appealing to objectivity as a proxy for control over existential circumstance. This is how God died. Not by mere disbelief, but by the realization that not even He could animate either values or morals.

[virmundi]

God is the objective morality because he will interact with creation. If he didn’t, you’re right.