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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 5:05 pm)Edwardo Piet Wrote:
(May 25, 2018 at 5:02 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: For the same unknown reasons He allows any other disorder or disease to exist, I suppose. Those are all natural consequences of a natural world. To prevent them, He'd have to divinely intervene every time they would happen, and this wouldn't be a natural world anymore. Why Did He choose to allow the world to be this way, instead of all magical? I don't know. But I do trust that if a God does exist, He knows much better than I do.

This is the best answer I've ever seen on this thread "For the same reason he allows any other disorder."

Indeed. That makes a lot of sense to me.

Now though, the question is, why does God allow any disorder to happen? Why does God allow childhood cancer to happen? And other serious diseases to happen to innocent children and animals? And extremely painful ones too? And childhood cancer existed in the past before pain medicine was allowed as well?

So I guess your answer is it is, indeed, an unknown reason. You say he must have a good reason. Well... I am not convinced. I really think if the God of the Bible exists he's not as good as he or the Bible claims him to be. Or at least not as competent as it is claimed that he is. Either his powers are a lot more limited than they're claimed to be, or he's not a good God. Or both.

Or he doesn't exist.

I'm only a little human living in a tiny part of the universe for a tiny amount of time, in the face of all eternity. All I can see is the here and now, this tiny portion, not even close to the big picture. I'm not going to presume to know better than a being who can see everything. It makes sense logically, but I understand how hard it is to accept, emotionally. Especially when going through very difficult times.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly." 

-walsh



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RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths? - by Catholic_Lady - May 25, 2018 at 5:40 pm

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