RE: Good exists - a Catholic comments
September 23, 2023 at 1:55 pm
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2023 at 1:59 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There's a fundamental flaw in making any consequential theistic claim even if gods did exist.
Think about it. Imagine a god actually does exist and actually does have a shitlist. So what. It might actually be the case that an existent god would do terrible shit to us for arranging our lives or our laws in ways that work for us rather than for it - but this is not actually different from any other individual (or country) being willing to do terrible shit when some other person or some other nation arranges their own lives or laws in ways that work for them, but not that aggressor.
I know, I know "but you'll burn in hell and or be bombed to hell". Maybe so, and without litigating whether it's a smart choice to appease dangerous assholes to avoid that - I'll just point out that we tell them to go fuck themselves with some regularity. It might be a bad idea, by some metrics and according to some set of consequences, but we'll do it anyway.
Think about it. Imagine a god actually does exist and actually does have a shitlist. So what. It might actually be the case that an existent god would do terrible shit to us for arranging our lives or our laws in ways that work for us rather than for it - but this is not actually different from any other individual (or country) being willing to do terrible shit when some other person or some other nation arranges their own lives or laws in ways that work for them, but not that aggressor.
I know, I know "but you'll burn in hell and or be bombed to hell". Maybe so, and without litigating whether it's a smart choice to appease dangerous assholes to avoid that - I'll just point out that we tell them to go fuck themselves with some regularity. It might be a bad idea, by some metrics and according to some set of consequences, but we'll do it anyway.
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