RE: How do we know that god isn't perfectly evil?
August 17, 2010 at 5:42 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2010 at 5:45 pm by Captain Scarlet.)
(August 17, 2010 at 5:31 pm)Paul the Human Wrote:Quote:How do we know that god isn't perfectly evil?
I hate questions like this, because they presuppose that there actually is a god. I understand that it is supposed to be hypothetical, but... since there is no god... I don't quite understand the point of asking about 'him'.
I understand you're reaction. If you are a 'weak' athiest you take the view that there I'd no case to answer,and that god talk is meaningless . I am sympathetic to this view but ultimately I am in the 'strong' atheism camp, which states that there is no god and as such carries a burden of proof as a theistic god is defined and we can disprove it/him/ whatever. The 'weak' and 'strong' flavours do not imply the force of the arguments both are powerful and consistent but have different approaches to argumentation. All this means I playback theistic terms to theists because we both know what we are talking about. But none of my arguments presuppose god is real, in much the same way as I feel confident in using the noun unicorn in a sentence without having a beleif in unicorns.
