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... true, noble, good and valuable. Therefore to avoid infinite regression, there must be something that is the most true, noble good and valuable and this can be defined as God. H.P Owen believed that morality existed due to a divine law giver who wrote the laws to which humans are made to obey through conscience. He wrote: "It is impossible to think of a command without a commander." And this therefore suggests that god is the 'commander' of the laws and we are those who must undergo the laws. That laws do not write themselves, since we do not know whom the commander was this requires explanation and the explanation is concluded to be God. Morality for Dom Trethowan was a form of religious experience, and therefore due to this belief points towards being to do with religion and therefore points to god being the one morality is down to. Every time ...
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