(September 21, 2013 at 3:08 am)max-greece Wrote: You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and all of the people some of the time,
but you can't fool all of the people, all of time.
Question:
How can we possibly know that?
If the devil is the good guy and God is the bad guy, but with better PR we would never know.
An evil God - doing bad things but proclaiming them good because he did them rather fits the biblical account.
We can know as atheists because we use secular moral standards. For example my morality is based in moral utilitarianism and when I use that standard to measure God then, it does not take long to realize that he is at best a petty tyrant.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
