RE: God can make infinitely more special/valuable things than this universe
November 25, 2018 at 10:40 am
(November 25, 2018 at 9:53 am)tackattack Wrote: Bel
Quote:She considers much affliction to be a positive, while also feeling an absolute duty to undo as much of other people's as possible. I don't quite grasp this yet,A much simpler explanation would be a parent punishing a child. The parent sees it as loving while the child considers it painful until they grow up and reach the understanding that it was for their good. While other parents in walmart give dirty looks at you punishing your children in public.
Quote:I make a simple point; if the theist doesn't take this universe's creation to be the end of God's supposedly unending power, then the theist ought to expect that God would have created far better things, in whatever ways God would decide to select.
If God could create infinitely more things of intrinsically more value, and God created us, then aren't we of intrinsically infinite value? Or at the very least do we have intrinsic value is God created us?
A shitload gigantic "what if" in that last sentence.
Why do you insist on assigning value to the super natural? Do you think atheists are incapable of valuing anything?
Hate to burst your bubble, but we are capable of compassion, and non violence, and love, and we have family and friends too. What you assign to fictional beings, we assign to nature without old mythology or superstition.