Quote:I think the arguments against Allah are even easier than those against the Christian God.
Picking a nit, here, but it's the same god.
On the question of being all-merciful, that sort of negates the notion of any god being just. In other words, a god who is always merciful is one who is going to ameliorate punishment levied against transgressors - you're not going to get the punishment you deserve.
On the flip side, a god who is always just - smiting those who merit smiting - can never be said to be either merciful or benevolent.
Just one more example of the nightmarish mental contortions religionist have to go through to make it seems as if the gods make any sort of coherent sense.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
