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Problem of good and evil for an atheist
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RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist
(August 22, 2010 at 8:46 am)fr0d0 Wrote: An act of evil is already judged to be immoral, and therefore never 'good' in any way. God cannot be evil, so doing evil can never be justified as God inspired.

A couple of posts before saying the above, you said that we cannot judge whether something your god does/causes is good or evil, because we are not all-knowing like god. You said that god cannot be evil -and- if he causes something we interpret as evil... we are wrong.

It seems to me, reading through this thread, that no matter what argument you are presented with, your counter is some variation on the 'god works in mysterious ways' concept. Almost every answer you give boils down to "we can't know the mind of god".
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Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by solja247 - August 13, 2010 at 2:58 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Tiberius - August 13, 2010 at 6:23 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Ace Otana - August 13, 2010 at 9:47 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Ace Otana - August 13, 2010 at 12:57 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Rhage - August 13, 2010 at 8:41 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by AnunZi - August 13, 2010 at 9:35 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by chasm - August 13, 2010 at 3:17 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Rev. Rye - August 13, 2010 at 5:02 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Rhage - August 13, 2010 at 6:02 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by padraic - August 13, 2010 at 11:48 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Minimalist - August 14, 2010 at 12:11 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by lrh9 - August 14, 2010 at 12:31 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by solja247 - August 15, 2010 at 8:49 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Rev. Rye - August 15, 2010 at 11:54 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 19, 2010 at 3:09 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Ace Otana - August 19, 2010 at 8:03 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Zen Badger - August 21, 2010 at 11:15 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 19, 2010 at 7:12 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 21, 2010 at 6:45 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Entropist - August 21, 2010 at 5:23 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 21, 2010 at 9:34 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Entropist - August 21, 2010 at 11:39 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 22, 2010 at 5:42 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Entropist - August 22, 2010 at 9:08 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Entropist - August 19, 2010 at 9:14 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by solja247 - August 20, 2010 at 9:20 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 21, 2010 at 11:19 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 21, 2010 at 1:09 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Bull Poopie - August 21, 2010 at 11:21 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Entropist - August 21, 2010 at 6:12 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by padraic - August 21, 2010 at 8:45 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by padraic - August 21, 2010 at 10:19 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 22, 2010 at 6:30 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Darwinian - August 22, 2010 at 7:55 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 22, 2010 at 8:02 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 22, 2010 at 8:46 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Paul the Human - August 22, 2010 at 9:50 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 22, 2010 at 9:56 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Entropist - August 22, 2010 at 5:42 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Tiberius - August 22, 2010 at 10:12 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 22, 2010 at 10:27 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 22, 2010 at 11:17 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 22, 2010 at 11:33 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 22, 2010 at 3:18 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 22, 2010 at 4:49 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 22, 2010 at 6:49 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Entropist - August 22, 2010 at 7:14 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 22, 2010 at 7:19 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 22, 2010 at 7:42 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 23, 2010 at 3:56 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 23, 2010 at 8:30 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by fr0d0 - August 25, 2010 at 6:09 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by padraic - August 26, 2010 at 11:09 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by padraic - August 28, 2010 at 7:37 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by padraic - August 29, 2010 at 7:35 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Entropist - August 30, 2010 at 8:02 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Skipper - September 8, 2010 at 2:14 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by ib.me.ub - October 16, 2010 at 10:05 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Anomalocaris - October 16, 2010 at 11:46 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by ib.me.ub - October 16, 2010 at 11:08 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by ib.me.ub - October 16, 2010 at 11:15 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by tackattack - October 17, 2010 at 11:38 pm
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by Rayaan - October 18, 2010 at 2:42 am
RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist - by LastPoet - October 18, 2010 at 7:51 am

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