(July 21, 2015 at 1:31 pm)Minimalist Wrote: "God" is not an evil fucker. God doesn't exist. The primitive fuckheads who invented him were evil fuckers.
They may indeed be malevolent. Or incompetent.
Much like Epicurus's riddle. Similar applies to the goat herders who wrote the holy babble. Indeed.
The only real relevant difference is that Epicurus's riddle is with regards to what God is if he were to exist.
Assuming God does not exist... he is certainly not malevolent (or evil). Nor is he incompetent. I wouldn't really define non-existence as incompetent. It would be meaningless to say that God, fairies, elves and ghosts are incompetent merely because such things do not exist outside our imaginations (God is imaginary, unreal, existent only like superman is existent as a 'character').
But assuming the goat herders who wrote the holy babble, whoever they were, assuming that whoever wrote the holy babble wrote the holy babble (don't bother reading Holy Babble ™... anyone... it's full of Yahweh, Jesus and other wacky shit).................. they may have been evil (or malevolent).... but they may have been incompetent. Which includes deluded, clueless, ignorant, stupid, mad, insane, etc.
Unless by 'evil' you include the impersonal definition of evil. I.e. natural disasters 'are an evil': in the sense that they're bad.
If by 'evil', you are also including that definition. Then yes, the goat herders who wrote the holy babble were necessarily evil at least in that sense.
Thank you.
