(December 18, 2013 at 8:22 am)bennyboy Wrote:(December 18, 2013 at 3:56 am)feeling Wrote: The parents argument fails btw because parents are neither omnipotent nor they are omniscient nor they designed us or the universe.Are we down to pointless meme pics already? "U mad bro?" pics coming next, or maybe pics of masturbating smilies?
The point is that what is pleasant and what is "good" are not necessarily the same. "Good" implies a goal, and in the argument about God, if good is an arbitrary human concept, the argument is meaningless. If God is real, and goodness/evilness is defined by God, then there's no human constraint on what that goal might be, and no way for people to determine, on their own, whether what they find uncomfortable or unpleasant is actually "evil," in the cosmic sense.
I don't think, therefore, that the omni-3 argument is the slam-dunk people take it for, because it equivocates between different kinds of definitions. But it still doesn't matter-- there are MANY good reasons not to believe in God-- like a complete lack of evidence, for example, or the fact that God is defined differently among perhaps thousands of different cultures.
All right then what is the goal? Enlighten me oh wise one.
