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Poll: How do you account for psychopaths?
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I don’t believe God is responsible for our morality
50.00%
4 50.00%
I don’t accept that psychopaths really exist
0%
0 0%
Psychopaths are choosing to ignore their innate sense of right and wrong
0%
0 0%
God mistakenly misses out psychopaths when granting morality
0%
0 0%
It’s the psychopath’s fault they have no empathy
25.00%
2 25.00%
It’s because of “the fall”
0%
0 0%
Other
25.00%
2 25.00%
Total 8 vote(s) 100%
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Theists: how do you account for psychopaths?
RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths?
(May 25, 2018 at 5:39 am)robvalue Wrote:
(May 25, 2018 at 3:41 am)Tizheruk Wrote: To a degree yes but i was talking about something more direct . But i was more talking about the fact that a god could literally have prevented the death of millions but does not .

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.
The thing is that if an all-powerful deity exists there's no reason for all of the victims to be real people.  He could make them imaginary to see how the real people react to the apparent misfortunes of others.  With a real deity you could be in the "Matrix" living an imaginary life because he could do anything.  So if you think that what you are experiencing is actually real then it's best to toss the idea of an all-powerful deity that interacts with you.



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RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths? - by Wyrd of Gawd - May 25, 2018 at 1:11 pm

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