RE: The Reason I'm Atheist
August 18, 2023 at 2:43 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2023 at 3:57 pm by Bucky Ball.)
(April 11, 2023 at 8:03 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Welcome. The OP raises a very valid experiece. Many people, including many close to me, find the problem of evil very troubling. And in my deepest grief I feel the abursurdity of existence acutely. IMHO there are reasonable ways to ponder the problem, such as Liebnitz's "Best of All Possible Worlds" defense, weak sauce tho it may be. Personally, I accept that creation must be imperfect since God alone can be perfect. But one does wonder why it must still be so miserable.
God is not creating another god. I don't buy this.
If he really is omnipotent then it's creation should be / will be as perfect as he wants it,
unless this god is bound by the laws of Reality, and then it's not omnipotent, (nor the creator of Reality).
Why would it create an imperfect creation, or have created a Realty that limits it's powers ?
There is no coherent definition of a god,
AND according to Christian theology, their god can make a perfect human if it wants to ... preternatural Adam and Eve, (before the "fall"), and the mother of Jesus.
As humans progress , the notion of "gods" will appear more and more anachronistic and preposterous.
If there were such a being, it would not almost 100 % be rooted in anthropomorphic concepts.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist