(October 30, 2015 at 10:55 am)alpha male Wrote: To say that god is evil for allowing suffering in humans implies that humans are persons or agents with rights to be free from suffering. That premise usually goes unstated. I'm saying that, in arguing that an omniscient creator precludes free will, even if successful you've just created another problem, i.e. humans no longer exist as independent persons with any rights. You win a battle but still lose the war.
The god character is certainly written as an overly controlling genocidal arsehole so we can only go by that really as the fiction is all we have.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.