PHI 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Stone Age, Carol T. Christ, Cultural Relativism
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If there is no god then, according to divine command theory. According to divine command theory, if there is a conflict between what is considered to be a universal moral principle, such as "thou shalt not kill," and god"s command to a particular person or group. If there is a conflict between what two people claim god command them to do. We have no means of resolving the conflict. Both gottfried leibniz"s and john hick explain the problem of evil and suffering by arguing that. The purpose of suffering is the perfection of our souls. Those who argue that divine command theory is true because others are unable to prove that particular commands are not from god, are committing the fallacy of. Emile durkheim argued in his book the elementary forms of the religious life, that. Each society creates god in its own image.
