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Are you morally superior to the god of the bible? [Spirituality & Religion]

Have you ever sanctioned slavery?
Committed or ordered genocide?
Let people you love suffer for not loving you back?

Shit, i think i'm morally superior to jehova god....

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I suppose if you are God, everything you do is moral, even if it is inconsistent.
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I would disagree with that. If you are god then maybe your have the right to do whatever you want. I don't feel that makes it moral. At least not by the standards we recognize.
SW-User
@Pikachu Well, it would define morality, i.e. God's actions. We could then say that the morality is not consistent. Qualifications are always added to even the most concrete of moral edicts. "Thou shalt not kill" seems simple until you rule out justified killing, and therefore it's really "thou shalt not kill*" where the asterisk lists all the exceptions of justified killing.
@SW-User

[quote] the morality is not consistent[/quote]

Well i guess i can agree to that
SW-User
@SW-User morals exist outside of religious ideoligies and gods, in social creatures like humans they are derived from social wellbeing to promote success in the species.
@SW-User The Euthyphro Dilemma presents the logical impossibility of a moral deity. It asks if the gods love what is good because it is objectively good, or if what the gods love is good just because the gods love it. Both answers have their own problems.