RE: Another hypothetical for theists.
March 23, 2018 at 2:00 pm
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2018 at 2:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
What the one is supposed to have to do with the other...a mystery. The world seems to be intelligible and reason efficacious regardless of which of the two postulates is accurate.
Speaking of how things seem.....that this world seems..if it were designed or created..to have been designed or created by a flat out sadist has never escaped the attention of theology. A significant and traditionally important portion of early christians, even, thought precisely this. The greeks were notorious for opining on the capricious nature of the gods. Other pantheons from antiquity's express purpose was as redemption from that very thing expressed as an archonic indifference. Some have what we might consider a whipping post of divinity...a god who is nothing -but- the pain we find in nature or a perpetual adversary.......the list goes on and on.
Speaking of how things seem.....that this world seems..if it were designed or created..to have been designed or created by a flat out sadist has never escaped the attention of theology. A significant and traditionally important portion of early christians, even, thought precisely this. The greeks were notorious for opining on the capricious nature of the gods. Other pantheons from antiquity's express purpose was as redemption from that very thing expressed as an archonic indifference. Some have what we might consider a whipping post of divinity...a god who is nothing -but- the pain we find in nature or a perpetual adversary.......the list goes on and on.
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