RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist
August 21, 2010 at 11:39 pm
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2010 at 11:41 pm by Entropist.)
(August 21, 2010 at 8:45 pm)padraic Wrote:(August 21, 2010 at 6:12 pm)Entropist Wrote: Repeatedly in life, I have witnessed that in order to quarantine oneself from doubt, the true believer must seal himself within a syllogistic bubble.
Don't we all? (rely on the syllogism) The difference is the skeptic does not infer truth from logic,he merely implies.
I have a problem when deductive logic is used to the exclusion of induction-- a necessary trait common to religion.
(August 21, 2010 at 9:34 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: The story is illustrative of God's judgements, which whilst to us appear to be cruel (because we aren't privvy to the information), are just. Logically God can only be just.
"Do as I say, not as I do." Nothing wrong with genocide as long as the Judeo-Christian god is the one giving the orders. And Christians think atheists lack a moral compass...?
BTW Padriac, this is what I am talking about when referring to a "syllogistic bubble": Logically this god can ONLY be just, therefore...
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