(May 25, 2018 at 5:47 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:(May 25, 2018 at 5:39 am)robvalue Wrote: God invented the fact that death can happen (and rape, torture, violence, illnesses, natural disasters, etc). That makes him responsible, in my opinion, since he didn't need to do that. (Or if he did, due to some incredibly convenient rule binding God to behave like a cock, then that just opens up way more questions than it answers.) Doings things via nature is just a buffer of responsibility, like me blaming the bat I smack you in the balls with.
Even more than that. First, God condemns people to death as punishment for Adam and Eve misbehaving, carrying the punishment of the sins of the father down into perpetuity. But also, by depriving a person of life, he's depriving them of the opportunity to possibly change one's mind about God, for better or worse, and thus he is essentially deciding their eternal fate for them. How theists see God getting a free pass in this is beyond me.
Exactly, yeah.
Worst case scenario, I’m questioning everything for a long period and I’m on the verge of becoming a Christian. Not yet, but in a few days. I’ve overcome the extreme disadvantage of not being born into a Christian family.
Then someone shoots me. There goes all my precious free will. There goes my chance at redemption. And god knew how it would go down all along.
Fair? I don’t think so. A more monstrous character is hard to construct.
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