RE: Argument from evil, restated
May 23, 2013 at 4:08 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2013 at 4:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 23, 2013 at 3:59 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: God is malevolent. = I am more righteous than God.Righteousness doesn't enter in. There's no such thing. In any case I could be malevolent- and make this observation, but that would not make the observation inaccurate - or excuse a god for being malevolent
Quote:God's incompetent because doesn't save everyone. = I am the judge of who should be saved."God" is incompetent for reasons entirely unrelated to its' inability to "save" anyone. Nevertheless, whether or not I am the judge of who should be saved has no power to alter an observation of another's competence.
Quote:God's creation is flawed. = I have the expertise to evaluate God's performance.Your god created nothing, but if you wish to claim it - then you'll have to own those flaws. It doesn't take too much in the way of heavy intellectual lifting to suggest what I offered up above, does it?
Quote:God created evil. = I have better moral judgement than God.Whether or not I have better moral judgement than the character you call a god is irrelevant to the claim of what god did or did not create.
Quote:So you're wrong. Nearly every atheist objection to God, as God, assumes that the atheist is smarter, wiser and more righteous than God.Actually, these objections to a god show that the atheist arguer has thought it through just a tad bit more thoroughly than the apologist. There's no actual god involved.
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