Theists: how do you account for psychopaths?

[Minimalist]

See, it;s easy.  Divine ethnocentricity.  All you have to do to explain one shitty thing is invoke an even shittier one!

I missed it, where do you see the scat?

Everything you say is shit, dripshit.

[robvalue]

We don't all belong to God. We are not all seeds of God.

Mat 13:
24 Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. 26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.

27 “The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’

28 “‘An enemy did this,’ he replied.

“The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’

29 “‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’”

Can't god overpower this enemy and put morality in all of us? Why is he letting someone mess with his creation?

The parable seems to suggest God has been outwitted/circumnavigated.

[Drich]

We don't all belong to God. We are not all seeds of God.

Mat 13:
24 Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. 26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.

27 “The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’

28 “‘An enemy did this,’ he replied.

“The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’

29 “‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’”

Can't god overpower this enemy and put morality in all of us? Why is he letting someone mess with his creation?

The parable seems to suggest God has been outwitted/circumnavigated.

Why would God want to over power his enemy?

Do you not understand the point of spreading the gain is to test, sift and harvest the grain?

How can God test the grain if not by forcing it to go though trials? how can the grain be tested if it grows with out contest?

When we grow we want bigger yield bigger fruit for less effort. 

When God grows He want stronger grain. More resilient to drought, or over watering due to a storm or reduced exposure to the sun due to a chocking weed.

[The Grand Nudger]

Are psychopaths gods enemy...?  I ask, because they often seem to think they're his best bud..and he appears to return that affection.

[The Valkyrie]

Here's a more complete description:

Psychopathy can be thought of as a more severe form of sociopathy with more symptoms. Therefore, all psychopaths are sociopaths but sociopaths are not necessarily psychopaths.

According to the Society for the Study of Psychopathy, psychopath traits include:

Lack of guilt/remorse
Lack of empathy
Lack of deep emotional attachments
Narcissism
Superficial charm
Dishonesty
Manipulativeness
Reckless risk-taking
Moreover, approximately 93% of psychopaths are in the criminal justice system.

Additional psychopath traits have been identified and more on these can be found in the article, Does a Psychopath Test Exist? Diagnosing the Psychopath.

https://www.healthyplace.com/personality...difference

Fuck!

I'm a psychopath??

[Neo-Scholastic]

I still don't understand the motivation for "Hey, Theist!" threads. There's only a handful of theists on AF and what do you really care about what we think?

[The Grand Nudger]

If believers could contain what they thought and it never effected others, that might be a much more pointed question. So long as minoroty loons in...sya, government, can swing national policy towards their loon beliefs, it doesn;t really matter that they're minority loons anymore than it would matter that you're a minority report here.

[vorlon13]

God Himself acknowledges another God who has sway over the earth:

2 Corinthians (KJV)
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

So, Trinity + 1 = ??

[brewer]

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29 “‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’”

At some point jesus gives the order to kill. Nice!

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Fuck!

I'm a psychopath??

Nah, you just play one on TV.

[The Grand Nudger]

Birds of a feather, and all.  Our boy drich has maintained for years that he;s gods super friend and that god has cured him of everything from cancer to aids, in addition to making him successful...despite the fact that he doesn;t understand the difference between right and wrong (or maybe because of it lol).

Why would Drichs superbud be any different?