Morality In Religion

Is it moral? Socrates.
Does God command this particular action because it is morally right, or is it morally right because God commands it? It is in answering this question that the divine command theorist encounters a difficulty. A defender of Divine Command Theory might respond that an action is morally right because God commands it. However, the implication of this response is that if God commanded that we inflict suffering on others for fun, then doing so would be morally right. We would be obligated to do so, because God commanded it. This is because, on Divine Command Theory, the reason that inflicting such suffering is wrong is that God commands us not to do it. However, if God commanded us to inflict such suffering, doing so would become the morally right thing to do. The problem for this response to Socrates question, then, is that Gods commands and therefore the foundations of morality become arbitrary, which then allows for morally reprehensible actions to become morally obligatory.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
Divine Command Theory

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[MoralOrel01]

the first one, socrates you dumb fuck, eye for an eye my ass