I decide based on the real world consequences of my actions to myself and others. All god(s) would add is a mask over my own conclusions and desires.

You need look no further than the slavery issue in the American civil war to see the subjective nature of God's will since you had Christians on both sides.

In this great struggle we defend the cause of God and religion. The abolitionist spirit is undeniably atheistic

• Reverend Benjamin Morgan Palmer, "Thanksgiving sermon"

Anti-slavery is essentially infidel. It wars upon the Bible, on the Church of Christ, on the truth of God, on the souls of men.

• Southern Presbyterian of South Carolina.