[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

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[Arlo] 
> 1) at any time in American history, has there ever been issued an "immoral ?
> order"?
> 2) neither "theism" nor "atheism" are to blame for historical atrocities, but rather 
> blind obedience to the social power structure of either "the church" or 
> "the state", and the willful adherence to the belief that one's chosen 
> social structure can do nothing immoral.

1)  Yes, examples during the "Indian wars", My Lai & probably the one currently under investigation in Iraq.  That a war as a whole is moral does not entail that all orders/actions within that war are moral.  (The end does not justify the means.)
2)  Besides the two sources of immoral behavior you mention, I would add viewing your opponent as less than human because of his race/religion/etc.