RE: Atheism and the meaning of life - what drives you?
November 1, 2021 at 11:13 pm
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2021 at 11:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The problem of evil is only a problem insomuch as a given person wishes to contend that their god doesn't and wouldn't fuck with evil. It's existence demonstrates that this belief..if everything is indeed god breathed and god willed.... as they suggest, is false.
It's an ethical problem, not an existential problem. In short, that if god exists..the guys an asshole - which makes his existence moot with respect to letting him take me to prom and fool around in the back of his dads truck. Remind me, what did you just get through telling us your good guy god would do if the lady says no? Burn in fire..was it?
Pagans didn't have to tie themselves in knots over this one. "If thor exists, how come I didn't get my latte!" Not his ao, go complain to someone else. The abrahamic god is jealous, though, insists on all the credit, for everything, and so inherits all of the blame as well. People of sound mind don't believe that cancer, AIDS, malaria, ebola, or small pox are evil - they believe that only a pyschotic and incompetent moral agent would inflict those things on people.
For some people, to some minds, that would be disqualifying as a god. I say lean in. Blood god ruling over the meatgrinder, 100 percent flame broiled all natural human patties - the smell is pleasing to his nostrils. At least that would track.
It's an ethical problem, not an existential problem. In short, that if god exists..the guys an asshole - which makes his existence moot with respect to letting him take me to prom and fool around in the back of his dads truck. Remind me, what did you just get through telling us your good guy god would do if the lady says no? Burn in fire..was it?
Pagans didn't have to tie themselves in knots over this one. "If thor exists, how come I didn't get my latte!" Not his ao, go complain to someone else. The abrahamic god is jealous, though, insists on all the credit, for everything, and so inherits all of the blame as well. People of sound mind don't believe that cancer, AIDS, malaria, ebola, or small pox are evil - they believe that only a pyschotic and incompetent moral agent would inflict those things on people.
For some people, to some minds, that would be disqualifying as a god. I say lean in. Blood god ruling over the meatgrinder, 100 percent flame broiled all natural human patties - the smell is pleasing to his nostrils. At least that would track.
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