RE: Atheism, A Grim Position?
January 5, 2015 at 9:57 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2015 at 10:12 pm by *steve*.)
(January 5, 2015 at 9:06 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Sorry. I was being presumptive there. I am most familiar with christianity, and sometimes assume wrongly that someone is talking about that when they say they're a theist. In my defense, three of the predominant religions of the world worship the same god.
No problem. Given the state of religion worldwide, it's a fair assumption. Things are changing now a bit here and there. On my street, I have neighbors who are Christian, Muslim, Hindi, Non-religious, and Buddhist.
(January 5, 2015 at 9:45 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(January 5, 2015 at 9:42 pm)*steve* Wrote: No "evil", no life.Did you pass that statement by a sunflower just to see if it held up? Seems to me, like the bit about pain growth and joy...what you have is an excuse, a deepity. Doesn't seem to square with the idea of not shielding some hypothetical god (and I'm pretty sure that there are apologists who -do- use precisely this line).......
Call it an excuse if you want. I call it a mitigating circumstance. If God is the creator of our reality, God isn't shielded from the pain, suffering, evil, etc. If God created the universe as it is then God must have felt the positives were worth the negatives.
