RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
September 7, 2014 at 11:48 am
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2014 at 12:03 pm by Mudhammam.)
(September 7, 2014 at 11:31 am)Diablo Wrote: From most people's perspective of course it is. But if you believe that they're sub-human you might feel you could treat them the same as animals. Some people used to feel that about blacks. The slave trade was not considered evil at the time, just a source of money.
Invasions and empires were very normal throughout history but would now be termed evil.
All knowledge is a process of growth. Did the Ptolemaic system of the cosmos only cease to be "true" with the Copernican revolution? Of course not. So, why should moral systems not be allowed the same flexibility while yet maintaining that their principles had been virtually true, considering their basis in rational axioms, prior to recognition and/or formulation?
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza