[Serious] Fallacies & Strategies

[Thumpalumpacus]

I think you're entirely missing the context of this thread. We assume we know God exists here for the sake of this discussion, usually for independent reasons that have nothing to do with his benevolence/malevolence. And by God we mean the object of worship as defined in classical theism, e.g. omnipotent and omniscient.

With this in mind, you don't get to say : "the purported demon isn't omnipotent" because in this case we're no longer under this hypothetical, and we need to have a separate discussion about the existence of God. And I assume, of course, that you have no independent reasons for believing a non-omnipotent demon exists.

You simply, by your own logic, cannot know if your belief that your god is good, or omniscient, or purple, is or is not correct -- even inside this framework you're trying to impose upon the conversation.

I notice you completely ignored my point that theists continually judge their gods as good or evil on a regular basis, even as (as you admit) they have no way of knowing it. You should perhaps answer that point? How can you judge your god to be good or evil if you don't have the same knowledge he or she has? Because that is your argument.