Quote Originally Posted by OldTrees1 View Post
I don't see how you reach that conclusion.
Being tied to laws of being (metaphysics) and being in a position to decide the fate of souls do not imply ability to know moral truth (although we hope they coincide). Unless you have some argument for why moral truth would necessarily dictate the fate of souls in a reality with gods?
For objective morality to exist and be tied to the planes which serve as afterlife wherein those who are aligned to the plane are rewarded by going to said plane, the decision-making force/entity/whatever about who goes where upon death must not only be objectively right, but strictly bound to honor what they know to be true about the soul's alignment and where it goes.

If the goddess who does the judging corrupts her position with her own biases, then either the planes to which she sends souls are not really bound to alignment (because they can be out of sync with the alignment they supposedly represent), or there is no objective alignment.

Objective forces simply exist; they cannot be defied. Yes, you can use a rocket to propel yourself upwards, but you're applying force against the gravity pulling you down, not turning off nor ignoring gravity. If there is objective morality, then abortion is either good, evil, or neutral. If planes are tied to alignment and serve as final destinations for the souls of the departed, then they cannot accept souls that do not belong there. Therefore, if abortion is not evil, and the sin that made the deciding factor of good vs. evil was abortion according to the judge, the judge would send a soul to the objectively wrong afterlife, and the afterlife in question would be, ever so slightly, twisted away from its alignment with, well, its alignment.

The notion that a soul would go to the wrong afterlife should be one of those adventure-sparking hooks, of grave metaphysical concern to all involved. At least, if there is, in fact, objective morality to which the outer planes-as-afterlives are tied.