(March 28, 2012 at 8:51 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(March 28, 2012 at 5:24 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:Specific names aren't coming to me, but the field of Process Theology takes the stance that God is engaged an on-going process of perfection.(March 26, 2012 at 11:59 am)Xavier Wrote: Meh. Not all theists say God is omnibenevolent, and the God of the Abrahamic religions most definitely isn't.According to whom???
(March 28, 2012 at 5:06 pm)oxymoron Wrote: Philosophy can only tell us what might be; it takes science to understand what is.Philosophy does many things. It also sets the parameters of scientific inquiry. It defines what constitutes knowledge and defines the very rules of logic. It also helps identify relationships between categories being.
Manichaeism is a Christian sect with some unusual beliefs. One of which is that god is essentially dualistic, both good and evil, one half embodied by "god" who is good but not omnipotent against evil which is embodied by Satan. The history of the earth is, to them, the history of a struggle between these two forces which are not seen as mutually exclusive but complimentary and neccessary intertwined forces. Takes care of the problem of evil for them!
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire
