SteveII Wrote:I'm not going to debate the PoE in this thread.
Maybe you should have stayed out of the moral issue of the argument, then.
How would a perfectly immoral omnipotent creator behave? To maximize suffering and sadistically enjoy the pain of others. How could it go about doing so? It would need to create life in order for suffering to exist. It would want to get around to forms of life capable of experiencing greater and more nuanced suffering. Maybe by setting up an automated system that would evolve such life forms in good time, based on competition and extinction over hundreds of millions of years. It would have to allow some good and some pleasure and some relief, because otherwise how would they know how badly they are suffering when it gets bad again? It would want them to make each other and themselves suffer even more for the evil LOLs. Maximum evil LOLs could be achieved by getting the creatures most capable of suffering in the greatest variety of ways to love it and thank it for not making them suffer more than it does already. It might give them eternal souls so it can continue to torture them after their bodies are dead.
The universe we're familiar with seems compatible with a perfectly malevolent creator.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
