The logical consequences of omnipotence

[Celi]

You acknowledge that I have the information, but then say that I'm still ignorant because I don't have the knowledge. I hope you can see the inconsistency. And, of course, when you say that, you mean that I don't know about God. In other words, you mean that even with the same information as you, I came to the wrong conclusion. Hence, my position is logically unsound. Which doesn't bother me, since obviously you're going to think I'm wrong about God if you're a theist and I'm an atheist.

You still don't get what I was saying was irrational. You gave your megavague definition of hope, and the first most obvious interpretation I dismissed out of hand was that the world is totally perfect, nothing bad ever happens, this world is a fluffy pink ball of sunshine, etc. I know that isn't what you believe, since you were earlier arguing in favor of suicide and natural disasters.

I think I am beginning to see what you mean, though. While you don't believe that nothing bad ever happens in that sense, you mean that nothing is truly bad because ultimately God is in control and he pilots the world like a well-oiled machine, never doing anything that's ultimately bad for us even if he does do things that we wouldn't want him to. Do I have that right? If so, I guess I can see how that might be comforting, but not to me personally.