RE: Questions for "Our Role(s) as Christians on Atheist Forums"
May 17, 2018 at 11:34 am
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2018 at 11:38 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(May 17, 2018 at 11:07 am)Khemikal Wrote: How are those kids gonna get their golden ticket if they don;t get raped?
Yes that is the position. That God decides it is worth it in the long run because there will be a 'net good' later on.
But also, free will is supposedly so beautiful and important that it's also worth allowing people to do the most horrible things to each other including innocent children and animals . . . I beg to differ.
The idea that a supreme being is perfectly good is perhaps even more problematic than the idea of a supreme being. If a supreme being exists it is either supremely evil or supremely indifferent.
(May 17, 2018 at 11:32 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Ham, do you think it would be a good thing if we were all born into solitary confinement prisons? Hypothetically speaking, if that's just how the world was. If we were all born into our own little box where we couldn't touch anyone else or go wherever we wanted. Do you think that would be a good thing?
No not at all but there are definitely worse things in the world. Child rape being one of them.
And of course with or without free will we don't need to limit anyone's physical freedom. The idea that because of the ability to do otherwise that God wouldn't be doing a good thing if he intervened to prevent cruelty to children and animals is absurd. Would it not be a supremely good action on his part to prevent all such things from happening? Is it not a supremely evil action on his part to sit back and allow such things to happen all over the world when he is perfectly capable of preventing it at any time in an instant?
