RE: One sentence that throws the problem of evil out of the window.
November 7, 2017 at 1:23 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2017 at 1:40 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
So, let's say I have more money than I know what to do with...that I could buy anything..but the one thing I really..really want, is to take a child and flay off it's skin and paint smiley faces on the walls with it's blood. Maybe I'd burn the remains as incense, and bask in the glorious smell of charred flesh, like god is said to enjoy.
Let's say I found some family in Thirdworldistan with 20 kids, and zero dollars. Let's say that I offered them so much money they could buy Thirdworldistan with it, for just one of their twenty children. The sickest one. Or maybe the one they just didn't love as much as the others. Let's say they sold me a child...like people do.
Does the wonderful life that family gets to lead, or the fact that I sent the kid straight to jesus...that it was worth it, on multiple levels, for everyone involved....change the fact that I have done evil?
A simpler and more classical exposition of the same goes as follows; If the ends do not justify the means, then they do not excuse them either. So take a care, Pool...CL...Mystic...Neo...of exactly what it is you're saying with these platitudes. What you're foisting upon your own gods and making them culpable for. You;re not solving the problem of evil, you're just telling us that you don't care how evil x might be, to you..it's worth it.
Either all of the above had to happen that way to serve gods ends, or god..the most powerful being in the universe..sat, silently complicit, while it was done...where no decent human being would. There's no happy way out, either option makes your god as monstrous as some of you are idiotically claiming that atheists in this thread are...and that makes you, like your god, complicit. Actively complicit. Excusing in it what you would not accept, even in us, even in this thread.
The inanity of it all can;t even be fully appreciated, until we realize that no such crime has been committed..either by me -or- by your god...but you really wish it would have been. You really wish there was a god whose ends excuse such means - conversely, that -anything- can be justified by heaven. That there really was a god who sat at the tip of every offending peen. How's that for fucking evil, eh?
Let's say I found some family in Thirdworldistan with 20 kids, and zero dollars. Let's say that I offered them so much money they could buy Thirdworldistan with it, for just one of their twenty children. The sickest one. Or maybe the one they just didn't love as much as the others. Let's say they sold me a child...like people do.
Does the wonderful life that family gets to lead, or the fact that I sent the kid straight to jesus...that it was worth it, on multiple levels, for everyone involved....change the fact that I have done evil?
A simpler and more classical exposition of the same goes as follows; If the ends do not justify the means, then they do not excuse them either. So take a care, Pool...CL...Mystic...Neo...of exactly what it is you're saying with these platitudes. What you're foisting upon your own gods and making them culpable for. You;re not solving the problem of evil, you're just telling us that you don't care how evil x might be, to you..it's worth it.
Either all of the above had to happen that way to serve gods ends, or god..the most powerful being in the universe..sat, silently complicit, while it was done...where no decent human being would. There's no happy way out, either option makes your god as monstrous as some of you are idiotically claiming that atheists in this thread are...and that makes you, like your god, complicit. Actively complicit. Excusing in it what you would not accept, even in us, even in this thread.
The inanity of it all can;t even be fully appreciated, until we realize that no such crime has been committed..either by me -or- by your god...but you really wish it would have been. You really wish there was a god whose ends excuse such means - conversely, that -anything- can be justified by heaven. That there really was a god who sat at the tip of every offending peen. How's that for fucking evil, eh?
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