RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths?
May 27, 2018 at 2:21 am
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2018 at 2:24 am by robvalue.)
I'm also anti-birth. I wish I hadn't been born, and I wouldn't wish existence on any human or animal. That's just the nature of this shithole God has made. I don't consider pleasure and suffering to be in the same currency.
By the by, if he couldn't create all this without the monumental amount of suffering being a part of it, then he shouldn't have created it at all. At some point he has to take some fucking responsibility. I think the moment a religious person finally allows this reality to gently tap against the baseless presuppositions that are taught about "God", it dawns on them that it's not merely a story, it's a story that can't be true.
I think that part of it has to do with coping. The mind would like to think there is some purpose for all this suffering. But the stories end up producing a creator that is either monstrous, inept, bound by endless conveniences, or completely self-contradictory. In truth, any actual creator is far more likely to be mundane and oblivious to us.
By the by, if he couldn't create all this without the monumental amount of suffering being a part of it, then he shouldn't have created it at all. At some point he has to take some fucking responsibility. I think the moment a religious person finally allows this reality to gently tap against the baseless presuppositions that are taught about "God", it dawns on them that it's not merely a story, it's a story that can't be true.
I think that part of it has to do with coping. The mind would like to think there is some purpose for all this suffering. But the stories end up producing a creator that is either monstrous, inept, bound by endless conveniences, or completely self-contradictory. In truth, any actual creator is far more likely to be mundane and oblivious to us.
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