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Atheist arguments and the morality of God.
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RE: Atheist arguments and the morality of God.
(April 8, 2014 at 1:33 pm)RobbyPants Wrote:
(April 7, 2014 at 4:44 pm)alpha male Wrote: Benevolent does not equal good. It would be benevolent for a judge to sentence a serial killer to eat a piece of chocolate cake and go on his way, but few people would think it's good of the judge to do that.

The problem I have with any of these analogies involving humans is that humans have a lot of qualities that God typically does not, and vice versa.
I didn't make an analogy between people and god there Robby, I made an illustration contrasting the definitions of good and benevolent.
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RE: Atheist arguments and the morality of God. - by tor - April 5, 2014 at 7:04 am
RE: Atheist arguments and the morality of God. - by tor - April 5, 2014 at 4:33 pm
RE: Atheist arguments and the morality of God. - by tor - April 5, 2014 at 4:50 pm
RE: Atheist arguments and the morality of God. - by tor - April 5, 2014 at 5:44 pm
RE: Atheist arguments and the morality of God. - by tor - April 5, 2014 at 6:12 pm
RE: Atheist arguments and the morality of God. - by tor - April 5, 2014 at 6:18 pm
RE: Atheist arguments and the morality of God. - by tor - April 5, 2014 at 6:27 pm
RE: Atheist arguments and the morality of God. - by tor - April 5, 2014 at 6:45 pm
RE: Atheist arguments and the morality of God. - by John V - April 8, 2014 at 2:37 pm

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