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Paganism vs. Monotheism
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RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism
(August 9, 2015 at 10:07 pm)Dystopia Wrote: 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.
I'm a bit perplexed about wherein exactly lies the force of the so-called problem of evil; typically, people differentiate between human evil and natural evil. The latter is the only problematic attribute of the world that could be directly ascribed to the responsibility of a God, and yet I'm not really sure that it's appropriate to call the causes and effects of physical law good or evil in any moral sense, since morality seems to presume a rational will that is free to make moral decisions... and thunderstorms, tsunamis, earthquakes, diseases, etc. wouldn't exactly meet that criteria. So, is the blame placed upon God for not creating a sterile universe in which the laws of physics or evolution are incapable of adversely affecting sentient beings? Is that really an act - the creation of a universe that evolves according to certain laws, which resulted in this experience of life - wherein we, ignorant subjects that we are, are justified to claim the authority of moral judgment about such a being's culpability in doing so? If there is no God, is the moral quality of natural outcomes eliminated? Is it because there no longer involves a rational will? And why should we presume that such a being as God would be rational according to our axiomatic systems of logic?
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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Paganism vs. Monotheism - by uniquepegasister - August 9, 2015 at 12:16 am
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Silver - August 9, 2015 at 12:17 am
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Wyrd of Gawd - August 9, 2015 at 12:26 am
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by uniquepegasister - August 9, 2015 at 12:30 am
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Brian37 - August 9, 2015 at 1:02 am
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Dystopia - August 9, 2015 at 10:04 pm
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by AFTT47 - August 9, 2015 at 1:26 am
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Pyrrho - August 9, 2015 at 12:16 pm
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Dystopia - August 9, 2015 at 10:07 pm
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by McDoogins - August 9, 2015 at 10:14 pm
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Mudhammam - August 9, 2015 at 10:44 pm
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Pyrrho - August 10, 2015 at 9:11 am
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Mudhammam - August 11, 2015 at 4:34 pm
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Pyrrho - August 11, 2015 at 8:07 pm
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Mudhammam - August 12, 2015 at 5:20 am
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Pyrrho - August 12, 2015 at 11:13 am
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Mudhammam - August 12, 2015 at 10:08 pm
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Pyrrho - August 13, 2015 at 2:58 pm
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Mudhammam - August 9, 2015 at 1:40 am
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by I_am_not_mafia - August 9, 2015 at 12:59 pm
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Brian37 - August 9, 2015 at 3:13 pm
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Mudhammam - August 9, 2015 at 10:00 pm
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by McDoogins - August 9, 2015 at 10:03 pm
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by The Valkyrie - August 9, 2015 at 10:47 pm
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Jenny A - August 9, 2015 at 10:56 pm
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by The Grand Nudger - August 10, 2015 at 9:19 am
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by Redbeard The Pink - August 11, 2015 at 5:13 pm
RE: Paganism vs. Monotheism - by vorlon13 - August 12, 2015 at 10:21 pm

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