RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths?
May 27, 2018 at 2:26 am
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2018 at 2:28 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 27, 2018 at 2:21 am)robvalue Wrote: 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.-and that's where you'd be wrong. We have examples of such religious people here on the boards. They accept all of that, fall to their knees, and exclaim that god is great.
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.
Some people are willing to accept, say, or do anything in order to get the imaginary punch and pie. If the world -weren't- full of suffering, but god commanded that it be so...they would work to effect it. They -do- work to effect it.
Quote: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 either end up producing a creator that is either monstrous, inept, bound by endless conveniences, or completely self-contradictory.Nah, they want the punch and pie. They don;t give a fuck if you suffer if they get their punch and pie. The good reason™ that you suffer......is, in fact, their punch and pie.
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