(July 19, 2012 at 5:39 pm)Nemo Wrote: Saw a comment on "perfection" and thought i add my two cents.
If you think about it this way. Why would a god just be pure good? In my eyes it creates nothing more then a boring utopia of dull. The very fact that we can choose and create our own path of life is reason enough to not believe in god. I'm sorry but if said god is all powerful and all seeing, why would he allow for evil to happen to his creations? sorry it just doesn't logically add up in my world
Basically, that's what I have been saying. Well spoken.
I won't get an answer out of the deist, and I don't expect there to be an answer from any theist in the near future, so I feel it's safe to assume there ins't one.
Honestly, isn't it logically contradictory to believe in a creator God who is perfectly good, considering the state of things in the world today?
That God can be falsified simply by any single person's ability to think of an alternate world with less needless misfortune and suffering.
I don't have to know everything to understand that a world with perfect living conditions around the globe and a more resilient natural structure would be a better fit for most all beings on the planet.
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true.
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
