The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American

by Andrew L. Seidel

your moral judgment is your own. It is independent from the bible and religion. If religion or the bible dictated our morality, we would not have the moral judgment to condemn this command as murder. If religion or the bible dictated your morality, the commandment to kill your family and friends who explore other faiths would be your morality. But it is not. Most believers are more moral than their god. Most disagree with the Judeo-Christian principles that inform their god’s law. This revelation should alarm us because it means that preachers claiming to know god’s moral law are simply giving their personal moral judgment a divine sanction. They ascribe their morality to a supernatural being instead of to themselves. They are claiming that their judgment is divine.