(April 8, 2014 at 1:33 pm)RobbyPants Wrote:I didn't make an analogy between people and god there Robby, I made an illustration contrasting the definitions of good and benevolent.(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.
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Atheist arguments and the morality of God.
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