RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist
August 25, 2010 at 4:56 pm
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2010 at 4:57 pm by The Omnissiunt One.)
Whatever you say to defend God in this case is irrelevant. God could've achieved what he wanted without killing so much as a fly. Plus, there is much evidence in the OT (Exodus 21:21, for instance) to suggest that he doesn't give a monkey's about anyone but his chosen people, and even then he lets them wander in the desert for forty years. Other religions are far more enlightened than the petty tyrant called Yahweh, and, indeed, secular humanism is best of all. The fact that you have to defend God's actions suggests that he's really not all that great a fella at all, or at least not as he's depicted in those Bronze Age scribblings, anyway.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln