RE: If God created all the good things around us then it means he created all EVIL too
January 23, 2017 at 9:33 am
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2017 at 9:36 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(January 22, 2017 at 10:47 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(January 22, 2017 at 1:16 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I find it interesting that the same people who say atheism is simply a lack of belief in God balk at the idea that evil is the lack of a good that ought to be.Well, for one, they are radically different things.
What! I'm outraged! Are you suggesting I made a category error! No. No, I didn't. They're the same. The same i said.
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(January 22, 2017 at 10:47 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: When a man rapes a woman, what good that should be is that a lack of?
For a start the goods lacking in the man are decency and self-discipline. Morality hinges on the concept that it means something to be human and that humans are supposed to be a certain way. If either of those two pieces are missing, then there can only ever be facts, never values.
(January 23, 2017 at 4:54 am)Godschild Wrote:(January 23, 2017 at 4:48 am)ProgrammingGodJordan Wrote: How do you believe/know/have faith that the existence of God is true/absolute, when you can't detect absolutes?
I can detect absolutely that you are a crazy person.
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