There is a somewhat trivial way out of this particular mess: replace “We ought to do what God wants” with “We ought to do what God would want, if God existed”. (It’s not any more incoherent than using any other fictional character as a role model.)
If God doesn’t exist, then there is no way to know what He would want, so the replacement has no actual moral rules.
If God doesn’t exist, loads of people are currently fooling themselves into thinking they know what He would want, and CronoDAS claims that’s enough.
There is a somewhat trivial way out of this particular mess: replace “We ought to do what God wants” with “We ought to do what God would want, if God existed”. (It’s not any more incoherent than using any other fictional character as a role model.)
If God doesn’t exist, then there is no way to know what He would want, so the replacement has no actual moral rules.
If God doesn’t exist, loads of people are currently fooling themselves into thinking they know what He would want, and CronoDAS claims that’s enough.