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Okay, so is there a difference between a Christian and an atheist in their view of the immorality of murder? Yes. The atheist (maybe I'd be better off with secular humanist) would say that it is inherently wrong to kill man and this he applies to his "God concept", so when God (a presumably all-powerful being) brings calamity and death, he is guilty of murder. The difference with the Christian view is this however: God has forbidden man to kill man. Christianity holds that God (as Creator) is also the master of death, he chooses who will live and who will die. To a Christian, anybody who dies, dies as a result of God's will (oftentimes we hear or say "God's taken him" when someone dies.) Inotherwords, it's the prerogative of God to take life. It's his job, if he doesn't do it, it doesn't happen. So at least with a Christian view, the attack that "God is a murderer" is simply ridiculous and ignorant. If you would want to argue about a deity outside of the Bible, fine and dandy... I don't know, nor would I want anything to do with a "blank" hypothetical deity who is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, and claims to be omnibenevolent but hasn't revealed himself. Sorry, but I had a semester of that in basic philosophy and I wouldn't waste my time over it ever again because it's absolutely pointless.

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