Ontological argument is like this:
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Sure, Universe is a big place and there could be a lot of things out there, including God, but we have no evidence of it, no evidence that it affects our lives, answers prayers or anything like that, so if there is some sort of God he doesn't give a fuck about us - so why would we give a fuck about him or her?
And then it all goes back to Epicurus who famously said: "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then He is not omnipotent. Is He able, but not willing? Then He is malevolent. Is He both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is He neither able nor willing? Then why call Him God?"
That was so beautifully said even back in 4th century BCE, that there was no need for people to pursue the God hypothesis - if only.
When faced with rationality religious people stoop to violence. Needless to say, it is with rash and unfriendly reaction that the god-loving community takes to Epicurus; and in Dante’s Divine Comedy: The Inferno one can find Epicurus and his followers in the Sixth Circle, known as the Circle of Heretics, trapped and tortured in flaming tombs.
Sure, Universe is a big place and there could be a lot of things out there, including God, but we have no evidence of it, no evidence that it affects our lives, answers prayers or anything like that, so if there is some sort of God he doesn't give a fuck about us - so why would we give a fuck about him or her?
And then it all goes back to Epicurus who famously said: "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then He is not omnipotent. Is He able, but not willing? Then He is malevolent. Is He both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is He neither able nor willing? Then why call Him God?"
That was so beautifully said even back in 4th century BCE, that there was no need for people to pursue the God hypothesis - if only.
When faced with rationality religious people stoop to violence. Needless to say, it is with rash and unfriendly reaction that the god-loving community takes to Epicurus; and in Dante’s Divine Comedy: The Inferno one can find Epicurus and his followers in the Sixth Circle, known as the Circle of Heretics, trapped and tortured in flaming tombs.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
