Part of the Rainbow covenant God made with Noah, before anything was written down in a book...just written down years later when anyone thought to do so from the oral traditions amplified by the revelation of God’s law to Moses!
Genesis 9:6 “Whoever sheds human blood,
by humans shall their blood be shed;
for in the image of God
has God made mankind.
That’s the earliest command against murder, set down by direct edict by God himself, and he also sets down the moral “why” we don’t murder, which darwinists and those who try to derive social policy from evolutionary theory have no answer for...that is “for in the image of God has God made mankind”!
If there is no God, there are no overarching realities that would give the yea or nay to our destructive impulses. Or, as Paul states, “If there be no resurrection of the dead, let us eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die!”
Right.
I guess if your world view states that the world began with the god of the Jewish tradition, then yeah. Unfortunately, many other societies and traditions and oral histories predate the Moses fables - societies that fully understood that killing fellow humans was a bad thing.
But anyway, playing within your construct, how do you reconcile the rivers of blood and rampant genocide in the Old Testament? The stuff that god commands? How many millions did he murder or command to be murdered in “his” vain attempt to gain terrified worshippers?
And again, I ask you, if you weren’t born into a christian society and very most likely raised christian, would you be a murderer? Earlier, kimtom waffled on that question.
It seems like a pretty straightforward question. Is your religion the only thing holding you back from a murderous rampage?