If one argues, as many deeply religious individuals do, that without God there can be no ultimate right and wrong—namely that God determines for us what is right and wrong—one can then ask the questions: What if God decreed that rape and murder were morally acceptable? Would that make them so? While some might answer yes, I think most believers would say no, God would not make such a decree. But why not? Presumably because God would have some reason for not making such a decree. Again, presumably this is because reason suggests that rape and murder are not morally acceptable. But if God would
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