Because I've been told not to kill anyone, and I haven't. If God asks me to do otherwise then that command is irrelevant, and none of us can condemn Roof, or ISIS.
Actually, neither Roof nor ISIS says that God told them to kill anyone. Both testify that they are morally correct in their decision to kill, but neither claims that God actually told them too.
OTOH, David Berkowitz did claim that his neighbor's dog told him to kill people. So do we give him a moral pass because he claimed he was obligated to obey his neighbor's dog?
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