RE: If everything has a purpose then evil doesn't exist
June 10, 2023 at 9:11 am
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2023 at 9:21 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Textual legalism probably isn't a satisfactory response. This verse only applies to these people, that verse only applies to those - but, ofc, there's a verse for everything, and a whole chest full of convenient translations for each. For every group of people past and present on a violent gods shitlist. This is not..like discriminatory sentencing..... generally, behavior smiled upon by our courts - and so the context of judges and sentencing may make it even worse.
God as described is a violent criminal, or a crooked judge? Are you asking whether working with a violent criminal or crooked judge makes you culpable, or an accomplice? I enjoy that you're comfortable with the notion that the existence of a god is at least fundamentally knowable - and that maybe sometimes it does fucked up things. I do wonder if you'll be able to maintain a commitment to that position, and what you think it could possibly accomplish?
I also think that it would be so much more useful if you focused more on why we should worship or serve a particular god (or anything, really). I feel like discussions about how god did this or that or our lives are so and so can only be circumstantial. So god did this, so god did that, so we find ourselves with a choice. Okay...and?
God as described is a violent criminal, or a crooked judge? Are you asking whether working with a violent criminal or crooked judge makes you culpable, or an accomplice? I enjoy that you're comfortable with the notion that the existence of a god is at least fundamentally knowable - and that maybe sometimes it does fucked up things. I do wonder if you'll be able to maintain a commitment to that position, and what you think it could possibly accomplish?
I also think that it would be so much more useful if you focused more on why we should worship or serve a particular god (or anything, really). I feel like discussions about how god did this or that or our lives are so and so can only be circumstantial. So god did this, so god did that, so we find ourselves with a choice. Okay...and?
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