Religious Moral Inconsistency
Mitigation for religious crime
Traditional faith does provide laws that people are expected to abide by, but there is hypocrisy. For example, such as when the Danish Christian converts who, as Vikings continued to rape, pillage and loot England, a Christian country. Look, if Sweyn Forkbeard believed God commanded him to milk the country of its silver, who can argue otherwise, considering God works in mysterious ways? Olaf Tryggerson hardly blessed the villagers to death, but if he, as a Christian, claimed to hear god telling him to raid, well why not?
Do you believe in religious inconsistency? Does it exist? The Christians honour Abraham, the biblical character who psyched himself up to murder his son, Isaac, after hearing God command him. Today, however, any Tom, Dick or Harry who might decide to carry out a divine command which turns out to be murder, well. . . they're fucked. In all fairness, let's say Tom or his two friends, did commit murder and said god commanded it, it's a bit of a paradox if it is god, commanding some causal necessity beyond our frail human limitation.
From a fair viewpoint, imagine if Dick claims his religiously justified murder for God is a act of goodness. Let's just say, he kills a corrupt elite who would have caused world war III. Dick's piety and faith prevents skynet, so to speak, but it's impossible for the world to truly ever know. So we say he's a nutter and it's all bollocks.
So, yeah, the only measured practice we wave around for such things is psychiatric assessment, evidence gathering. There is no litigation charged with validating or falsify claims of a divine interaction in criminality. These things really are down to expert psychiatric opinion, because, lets say when fellow believers doubt Islamic terrorists who experience of Allah's commands, they also doubt key teachings in the Quran, including the phenomena of divinity interacting with humans.
If then, let's say, a religious person A forgives Religious person B for horrendous crime C, in virtue of God speaking to her, for example; it follows A, is also expected to forgive the historical genocide Yahweh ordered against the Amalekites? This suggests sometimes genocide is valid, yet, though shall not kill and you should turn the other cheek? Bloody hell, this has gone dense.
We would never expect any religion to provide empirical evidence, especially to prove how their respective God is responsible for anything. The Pope cannot ascribe responsibility to God for anything outside of his faiths dogma, such as someones car insurance quagmire, crypto currency or the Higgs field. So, divine command has limitations, compartments, denomenation, and no one has a need to test the 'commanded' populace for signs of God or command.
There is real potential for inconsistency here in religious moral reasoning. The Quran teaches the sanctity of life. You may have heard an Islamic saying something similar to this: ‘to kill one person is to kill all humans’ meaning suicide is a denial of this teaching, and pretty frowned upon. Allah might hold authority on such things in holy text, but some modern Muslims contradict those scriptural teachings whenever they opt for becoming a suicide bomber or cut off a cartoonists head. However, motives and virtues are often applied postmortem to those who do kill themselves; words like martyr or self-sacrifice, music genius and freedom fighter might not necessarily portray the suicides view of themselves, or even, correctly support the objective history of events. Perhaps some musical geniuses end their lives with narcotic concoction and alcohol, because they genuinely feel utterly miserable? Catholicism condemns suicide while worshipping a man who committed suicide-by-law in a Roman province under Gods command. Things like this do raise questions about consistency, not to forget, divine commands test the faithful because all this God and afterlife stuff needs interpretation; if worshippers fail to believe in divine commands what is the point of them or the belief system?
Essentially, what can be done here to rectify things? Inspect every future ominous individual case who hears God's voice just in case? Or perhaps, simply clear out all the old irrational and hypocritical dogma that makes no sense? Can we interpret and contextualise this old ancient scripture to meet modern life in a way that does not create problems?
