RE: Free Will Theodicy
July 9, 2023 at 5:51 pm
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2023 at 6:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Lets not forget This Good God's two all time favorites, hands down. Predation and starvation. I'm not sure it really matters. If god allows suffering or evil because it values some other thing more - that's not really a defense. It's a confession to motivated complicity if we're being as generous as possible. It tends to get worse if you ask why a god values something - like free will - to this extent. More fuel for the soul forge.
I go with the simplest and most evident explanation. Supposing there was a god that didn't want bad shit to happen, or didn't value some other thing so much it was down with bad shit - the reason so much bad shit happens is that this god flat out can't do anything about it. He's on the tip of every rapists penis just losing his fucking mind. Thankfully, we're not limited in this absurd way. We can damn a river, we can vaccinate ourselves and each other, we can eradicate predators and we can grow more food, we can throw assholes down the oubliette.
I go with the simplest and most evident explanation. Supposing there was a god that didn't want bad shit to happen, or didn't value some other thing so much it was down with bad shit - the reason so much bad shit happens is that this god flat out can't do anything about it. He's on the tip of every rapists penis just losing his fucking mind. Thankfully, we're not limited in this absurd way. We can damn a river, we can vaccinate ourselves and each other, we can eradicate predators and we can grow more food, we can throw assholes down the oubliette.
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