Yahweh, the Devil, and Job

[John V]

This whole point of yours is ridiculous. I can't believe you expect any rational person to accept this as a logical conclusion when you yourself want to sell us the idea that your god "needs" pleasure and derives it from watching his sheep suffer.

Where did I try to sell the idea that god needs pleasure? Please quote me.

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God doesn't have any need for obedience.

That's what I said, sweetie! Thanks for agreeing. That's two of you who didn't bother to check the beginning of this part of the discussion and see what my position really is.

If anything it would be a want, which brings us back to: god is a selfish bastard. What was your counter argument to that? I missed it.

It was that if you think this indicates that god is a selfish bastard, than most people are, too, as they do the same thing.

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Not true. I have a prescription waiting at the pharmacy right now that I need and if I don't get my body will shut down within 24 hrs. I'm not breaking into the pharmacy to get it right now am I?

No, but you just said that it isn't a need for another 24 hours.

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Or, alternately, as I said earlier, you had other methods by which you could fulfill the need that the donut would have sated.

No, the donut would have sated a desire for something sweet. I didn't substitute another sweet item, I just did without.