RE: One sentence that throws the problem of evil out of the window.
November 9, 2017 at 11:23 am
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2017 at 11:25 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 9, 2017 at 11:18 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: But Hitler and Stalin did not create a paradise. Both failed miserably in even securing a high standards of living for all their citizens.Allah doesn't seem to be doing so hot on that count either.
Quote:God created evil, but he also created good, and orders only with the good. He doesn't ask people to commit immoralities, he doesn't command with evil. Evil is a created possibility; but it's always caused by those creatures that choose it.Magic books say otherwise. Whose authority, in this regard...should we defer to? Yours, or magic books?
Quote:Human dictators only commit selfish evil, and really incapable of something "that good" like creating mercy or paradise.So, if Hitler had built a nice shiny city, maybe paved the streets with the powdered skulls of dead jews.....all that evil would have been a-okay?
See, again, you're explicitly confirming the PoE. Allah is evil, but you're looking forward to all the gingersnaps in the sky.
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