RE: "God has morally sufficient reasons for permitting evil"
December 12, 2013 at 6:39 am
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2013 at 6:40 am by pineapplebunnybounce.)
You really think that children are starving for your benefit? So you could be a better person?
I'm not going to comment on how awful a thought and how selfish that world view is beyond this sentence.
Let's look at it logically.
Suffering in others doesn't give one the ability to empathize. Psychopaths are unable to empathize and even when they're harming people, they cannot empathize. You can have the entire world starving and psychopaths will not be able to be "better people". You do not become a better person by feeling bad for someone and making a decision to help them, you were able to empathize and you were a better person, that's why you decided to help them.
Anyway, if god is omnipotent, he can use less cruel tools and methods to teach us such a simple lesson. Instead, he uses the weakest of the weak to help the privileged do some soul searching? Really? What an awesome god you have there.
I'm not going to comment on how awful a thought and how selfish that world view is beyond this sentence.
Let's look at it logically.
Suffering in others doesn't give one the ability to empathize. Psychopaths are unable to empathize and even when they're harming people, they cannot empathize. You can have the entire world starving and psychopaths will not be able to be "better people". You do not become a better person by feeling bad for someone and making a decision to help them, you were able to empathize and you were a better person, that's why you decided to help them.
Anyway, if god is omnipotent, he can use less cruel tools and methods to teach us such a simple lesson. Instead, he uses the weakest of the weak to help the privileged do some soul searching? Really? What an awesome god you have there.
