RE: The argument against "evil", theists please come to the defense.
July 19, 2012 at 9:39 pm
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2012 at 9:39 pm by Skepsis.)
(July 19, 2012 at 6:41 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I guess a general argument against sufferring can be as follows:
If suffering was for the greater good, we should not want to get rid of suffering.
We should want to get rid of suffering.
Therefore suffering is not for the greater good.
I don't understand what you are trying to say here.
Elaborate or rephrase, please. Help me understand.
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
