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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?
Theists, I think, have been missing the true meaning to that question for as long as it's been asked.

It's not so much why would god make a psychopath that's important.

What makes the question important is that, clearly, if god is the creator, it makes psychopaths.

God also makes entrance to heaven conditional on repenting your sins and seeking forgiveness.

Psychopaths (see the full definition) cannot repent as they cannot identify anything with themselves to repent about.

Sure a phsychopath could pretend to repent but, if a god is a god, that god would know their repentance was fake (as should any priest or minister).

So, the bigger question is:

Why would god create someone with no chance or possibility to enter heaven and punish them for it?



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RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths? - by Lightbearer - March 5, 2021 at 2:14 am

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