(April 5, 2014 at 5:51 am)jesus_wept Wrote:(April 5, 2014 at 4:59 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: If you believe in you probably believe that he defines morality. In which case any argument that god acts / has acted in an immoral, or evil, way is De facto flawed.
It's not the argument that's flawed but the brain of the person who can ignore their cognitive dissonance and make excuses for the psychopathic, egotistical meglomaniac they call god.
This x100. It's not like the "God is a meanie" arguments will disprove God, but it'd be nice if people were willing to actually try and figure out if his actions are moral instead of assuming they are, working backward from there, and explaining why killing thousands of children in certain circumstances is good.
Also, anecdotally, it worked for me. A lot of what got me able to let go of naked belief in God was me critically thinking about the actions of a supposedly all-loving god. The best I could come up with was "mysterious ways", "master plans we can't understand" and other hand-wavy dismissals that amount to "I don't know, it doesn't make sense, but I believe anyway".
