Analysis Of The Article 'God And Morality'

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In Cahn’s article “God and Morality,” it talks about if people believe the existence of God or not and if they feel safer if there is a God there. It also states that if God does exist, than is killing moral or immoral according to God. There are some people in the world that do believe that God created everything, so if you kill God’s creation than it is immoral because why would God want you to kill something he created. But there are other people out there that think murder is moral because he did created us and gave us the power to murder, so, why would it be immoral. I personally believe that, if God does exist than murder is moral because if he created everything, why did he give us the power to murder if he did not want us to kill

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