The Unethical God : Is it ethical to motivate moral acts by the belief in a divine entity?

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Is it ethical to motivate moral acts by the belief in a divine entity? I question if something divine would be satisfactory as a metaethical source for motivating moral actions, by examining the core of principles of a divine metaethical source through Divine Command theory or Divine Command Metaethics. First, I argue that the divine’s own authority is not enough for it to command or will what is moral. Second, I argue that the nature of the divine can’t be what is good and how such a claim is semantical. Through this I show that there are many problems with the concept of the divine as a metaethical source, which would make the act of motivating moral actions on the belief in the divine likely unethical.