(October 4, 2019 at 3:43 pm)Ricardo Wrote: How to refute my theistic friends, who always talk to me, that I cannot prove the non-existence of God!
The Christian God is defined by mainstream Christianity as being all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful, and all just. Yet even a cursory reading of the bible reveals a God who is cruel, unjust, tyrannical, unloving and eternally vengeful. Ergo, the Christian God does not exist by reason of self-contradiction.
An all-loving, all-powerful, all-knowing God, by definition, cannot create evil or permit evil to exist in the world. And yet, evil exists. Ergo, God, as he is defined, does not exist on the grounds of self-contradiction.
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
