'The death of God' by Simon Blackburn is an excerpt that challenges the role of religion in the ethical decisions that we face. Throughout the piece the idea that religion has involvement with ethics is never disputed, however the article does question this involvement by asking to what extent and why this is the case. By analysing Blackburn's main message I shall decide upon whether his arguments are justified in conveying this. Taking on the role of an apparent atheist, Blackburn demonstrates his place by illustrating the absurdness of some religious stances.
In order to show how certain religious messages cannot be taken literally in today's society, Blackburn uses some radical examples from The Old and New Testaments. These include 'God having no problem with a slave-owning society'; and that ‘justice can be satisfied by the sacrifice of an innocent for the sins of the guilty'. Here he demonstrates well that God's word is in fact not ‘eternal and unchanging' as the bible......
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