RE: One sentence that throws the problem of evil out of the window.
November 7, 2017 at 11:51 am
(November 7, 2017 at 11:47 am)Cyberman Wrote:(November 7, 2017 at 11:12 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: They don't think evil exists in the first place. So a person who rapes, tortures, and kills a child is not an evil person. And doing those things to a child is not an evil thing to do.
Sorry, but where the fuck do you get off, strawmanning like that? Personally I think people are fully capable of perpetrating acts which we might label as evil. It's the notion of evil as a force independent of human behaviour, that's where I draw the line. It's probably safe to say that a lot of us would tend to agree on that.
But to go from there to saying that we think that raping a child etc is not an evil thing to do is unutterably disgusting. If you have an ounce of decency, you should apologise to every atheist on this forum.
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and I'll add that you can only get to that assertion is by grossly misunderstanding what's been said here, unintentional or not.