RE: The argument against "evil", theists please come to the defense.
July 20, 2012 at 11:42 pm
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2012 at 11:45 pm by Mystic.)
(July 20, 2012 at 11:36 pm)Ryantology Wrote: Then, this betrays God's inadequacy. If he were better at his job, he could invent a universe where character building is unnecessary for a person to be mentally well-adjusted. He would not allow it that people randomly suffer far more for no deserving reason.
This seems rather circular. I'm stating it's possible character building is a worthy goal in itself, not for the sake of being well-adjusted, but as a goal, and that suffering in relationship to endless peace and non-sufferring, is a worthy sacrifice for any thing that adds to the human experience of character building. It can be argued some evils are redundant, in that other evils achieve that good anyways, but I argued that there can be benevolent want of diversing human character building character for legacy in the future, enriching human experience as a whole, everyone with their cool story to tell (if they built their character honourably). In fact, I extended this to sentient life in general. It gives more options to free-will and character building.
