(August 9, 2015 at 12:16 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(August 9, 2015 at 1:26 am)AFTT47 Wrote: I guess they're less harmful because none of them have the social/political clout of the major monotheistic religions. As to credibility? No difference in my opinion. None of them have any. All the religions are clearly human-invented.
There is a great deal of difference in credibility between, say, Christianity and the ancient Greek religion. The problem of evil proves that Christianity is a lie, but does nothing to disprove the ancient Greek religion. In the ancient Greek religion, none of the gods are omnipotent, none are omniscient, and none are perfectly benevolent. So the ancient Greek religion, while still implausible and not worthy of serious consideration, is more plausible than Christianity.
The problem of evil doesn't disprove Christianity - It proves god is either evil or instead has a different conception of what constitutes good, evil and suffering - This, of course, assuming a priori that Christianity is true. If you were to discover some overwhelming evidence that the Christian god exists, you could still consider him evil - I'm happy that such a deity most likely doesn't exist.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
