Religious morality: Arbitrary or Regularize

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One of the main difficulties of conceptual and particularly realization-based dependence of moral attributes on religion is the irregularity of God’s will and voluntary actions and hence arbitrariness of morality derived from it. According to this critique, divine will and reluctance or command and prohibition without criteria and standards can shape moral concepts such as good and bad or at least have an influence on qualification of human actions to the predicates.But some philosophers and theologians, apart from other critiques against these two versions of religious morality, have attempted to resolve this problem by accommodating some determining factors in God, invoking to logical contradiction of bad actions, favour to attributes as divine simplicity and the like. These answers essentially have been incapable of solving this problem unless we consider the real object of God’s will and the fixed subjects of ethical propositions.

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