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<\/a> <\/p>\nBut what about morality? Do I believe in moral absolutes? There I found myself returning to Plato\u2019s famous Euthyphro dilemma. If there are moral absolutes, where do they come from? If God is the source of them, then God can command genocide and it is moral. If genocide is wrong no matter what, then morality seems to transcend even God.<\/p>\n
The moral absolutist offered the suggestion that moral absolutes might simply be an expression of the Creator\u2019s character. That doesn\u2019t seem to me to solve the problem. In fact, it seems to create a problem akin to the \u201cfine tuning\u201d of the laws of physics: then we have a Creator of our universe whose morality is fine tuned to the cosmic moral absolutes\u2026<\/p>\n
I am pretty sure that the question whether \u201ckilling babies\u201d is absolutely morally wrong came up. It seems to me ironic that a Christian fundamentalist would ever want to raise that issue, since the God of the Bible commanded<\/a> such acts. One cannot make the problematic nature of such stories go away by waving the magic \u201cWell, that was the Old<\/i> Testament\u201d wand, since the Letter of James quotes the Abraham story<\/a> as a positive one. That God was \u201conly testing\u201d Abraham, and that the story in its present form is intended to combat child sacrifice, still leaves unresolved the problem that it remains appropriate for the author for Abraham to think it conceivable that God would make a request that his son be sacrificed.<\/p>\n