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The Ultimate Why There Is Evil in the World Thread.
#71
RE: The Ultimate Why There Is Evil in the World Thread.
Yeah, "God" has no wants or needs - apart from having its holy dick sucked for eternity.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#72
RE: The Ultimate Why There Is Evil in the World Thread.
(May 17, 2015 at 8:08 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Yeah, "God" has no wants or needs - apart from having its holy dick sucked for eternity.

There's a sort of intellectual inbreeding at work in this forum, isn't there?

Stupid posts like this drive the more thoughtful folks who wander in away and only the low-brow types remain.

Thus, it becomes an increasingly insular, doesn't it?
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#73
RE: The Ultimate Why There Is Evil in the World Thread.
(May 17, 2015 at 8:44 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:
(May 17, 2015 at 8:08 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Yeah, "God" has no wants or needs - apart from having its holy dick sucked for eternity.

There's a sort of intellectual inbreeding at work in this forum, isn't there?

Stupid posts like this drive the more thoughtful folks who wander in away and only the low-brow types remain.

Thus, it becomes an increasingly insular, doesn't it?

Well, gosh, we must be doing something right to be so honored to have an immensely thoughtful person such as yourself sticking around.  I don't know what we'd ever do without you.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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#74
RE: The Ultimate Why There Is Evil in the World Thread.
I notice he didn't actually address the comment, though. Interesting.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#75
RE: The Ultimate Why There Is Evil in the World Thread.
(May 17, 2015 at 8:05 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:
(May 17, 2015 at 3:12 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: Pure, unadulterated bullshit. If gawd has no wants or needs, why did it create anything at all?


From the Catechism:

293 Scripture and Tradition never cease to teach and celebrate this fundamental truth: "The world was made for the glory of God."134 St. Bonaventure explains that God created all things "not to increase his glory, but to show it forth and to communicate it",135 for God has no other reason for creating than his love and goodness: "Creatures came into existence when the key of love opened his hand."136 The First Vatican Council explains:


This one, true God, of his own goodness and "almighty power", not for increasing his own beatitude, nor for attaining his perfection, but in order to manifest this perfection through the benefits which he bestows on creatures, with absolute freedom of counsel "and from the beginning of time, made out of nothing both orders of creatures, the spiritual and the corporeal. . ."137


294 The glory of God consists in the realization of this manifestation and communication of his goodness, for which the world was created. God made us "to be his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace",138 for "the glory of God is man fully alive; moreover man's life is the vision of God: if God's revelation through creation has already obtained life for all the beings that dwell on earth, how much more will the Word's manifestation of the Father obtain life for those who see God."139 The ultimate purpose of creation is that God "who is the creator of all things may at last become "all in all", thus simultaneously assuring his own glory and our beatitude."140

I see you are agreeing with SnakeOilWarrior about it all being pure unadulterated bullshit. Of course, this was something mentioned much earlier in this thread at:

http://atheistforums.org/thread-33117-po...#pid941699

This thread just keeps ignoring what has already been shown to be the case.  Which is why you keep going and going and going...

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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