RE: The Problem of Evil (XXVII)
June 7, 2016 at 12:14 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2016 at 1:35 pm by ApeNotKillApe.)
If you must believe in the cosmic person, you can skirt these morality conundrums by admitting that it's malevolent. But then I suppose people wouldn't want to live in that world, would they, so they have to play the beaten child in an abusive household.
"Your father beats you?"
"Only when I deserve it."
It's an understandable reaction when you happen to be a member of a species that projects agency onto a universe that has done nothing but hit you with disasters and plagues since the day you spawned, it's similar to how many victims of abuse react, they blame themselves for the pain they receive, excuse whatever terrible things the abuser has done, submitting to their authority, telling themselves the abuser knows best, etc; it just so happens this abuser is a cold, unthinking cosmos that their flawed primate brains have mistaken for an angry parent. An understandable reaction, but primitive and inaccurate.
"Your father beats you?"
"Only when I deserve it."
It's an understandable reaction when you happen to be a member of a species that projects agency onto a universe that has done nothing but hit you with disasters and plagues since the day you spawned, it's similar to how many victims of abuse react, they blame themselves for the pain they receive, excuse whatever terrible things the abuser has done, submitting to their authority, telling themselves the abuser knows best, etc; it just so happens this abuser is a cold, unthinking cosmos that their flawed primate brains have mistaken for an angry parent. An understandable reaction, but primitive and inaccurate.
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