The purpose of this book is to show how religion can be used as a polemic against the allegation that any authority of social institutions both religious and secular exists to make an otherwise good action bad or an otherwise bad action good.
This polemic is not airtight for even in the existence of a hypothetical or real deity who prescribes a objective moral value system to any sentient life in the cosmos, other sentient life may have another objective moral value system, none the less those who hold certain value systems such as a goal to destroy or enslave all other sentient life in the cosmos I will not even attempt to reason with as well as those with some other value systems quite repugnant to my own.
This book when summed up to its most important point may simply be a suggestion that religious teachings may have been inspired by a real divine being to ethically influence people not to murder or at the very least that if such a hypothetical divine being does not exist in reality that interpretation of religious texts or religious teachings may be used none the less as an ethical influence against murder instead of an unethical influence in support of murder although there shall be much more to my book than that.
The idea that human beings should need a divine being to tell them not to murder may seem ludicrous on face value and it is but nonetheless even if a divine being has spoken in reality or has been imagined in the mind of men to persuade mankind against murder this has not been sufficient nor has mass murder ended in so called atheist states apart from the allegedly corrupting influence of so called fairy tales of the divine. Yet there has never been an atheist state for to believe in the state is to worship an idol of mankind's imagined creation. An imagined creation that is none the less deadly and just as real as the bullets that are used to shoot transgressors of manufactured laws, the ultimate act of worship to an imaginary god, real human sacrifice to the imagined state itself. In light of this every day reality the far fetched idea that mankind should contemplate a religion in order to oppose murder even though they should simply reject the idea that murder is good at face value without need for a real or imagined God to give them command not to murder may start to seem more reasonable after all.
Copyright Carl Janssen 2017
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