RE: Atheism, A Grim Position?
January 5, 2015 at 10:11 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2015 at 10:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 5, 2015 at 9:57 pm)*steve* Wrote: 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 thought the negatives were worth the positives.-and it just gets worse. Good to know that god decided for some poor infected 3rd world fucker that his miserable existence was totally worth it - by gods metrics...of course.....and worth it - regarding some unspoken "it". Now it's not an issue of necessity, but what some other party figures is worth it (whatever the hell that means)?
What about any of that is a mitigating circumstance? What do you understand a mitigating circumstance to be (in some other context, perhaps...)? -and what...exactly...is being mitigated
(that last q cuts to the heart of why I think you're not being honest with either us or yourself when you claim that you aren't shielding or making excuses for a hypothetical god - if that were the case...there'd be nothing to mitigate)
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