(June 8, 2021 at 1:02 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(June 8, 2021 at 12:45 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I think it would depend on how much they like their kid.
Boru
Not the point. Most theists sell their god as "all loving" and "all powerful". If that is their argument, then nothing bad should ever happen.
Theists cannot grasp the reality that unfortunately bad happens. It isn't that good cant or doesn't happen. Good most certainly does happen. But they cant grasp that there is no divine power or ground villain involved.
I've also put it like this.
I would not hire this God to manage a bicycle factory. The bikes would end up with squid for spokes and the workers would murder each other over the competing assembly manuals.
It’s EXACTLY the point. Theists worship a God who manifestly doesn’t love everyone, and they’re perfectly ok with it. The god they believe in resembles nothing so much as an abusive parent who would cheerfully hire a babysitter who had a 33% chance of killing their kids.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson