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One sentence that throws the problem of evil out of the window.
RE: One sentence that throws the problem of evil out of the window.
(November 7, 2017 at 2:53 pm)Khemikal Wrote:
(November 7, 2017 at 2:44 pm)Whateverist Wrote: If I get zapped I won't be looking up to find the god that did it, I'll definitely be scanning the area for his overly helpful followers.

Yup, but our lack of belief in that god should not be taken as a way to avoid the reality that the same god condones that sort of thing time and time again.  If such a god did exist, that;s what it thinks is right.  That;s the heart of what many people..yourself to some extent and myself from my wig to my shoebuckle...find abhorrent about the very idea of god.

Here is a creature that punishes the most and the most severely for it's subjective moral appraisal, while allowing those who run afoul of it's objective moral appraisals to skate on their actions....by killing some jew.

This is a complete inversion of goodness and justice , of morality, as it's come to be seen.  Even the faithful have to rationalize the whole story away as something else entirely.


You know, for me, it isn't really so much about the logical extension of the hypothetical existence of such a being, though I can see that is what bothers a lot of us.  For me I just wince at the way exalting a literal god invariably goes hand in hand with devaluing our human potential.  Witnessing self-abnegation makes me sad.
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RE: One sentence that throws the problem of evil out of the window. - by Whateverist - November 7, 2017 at 3:00 pm

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