RE: Problem of good and evil for an atheist
August 26, 2010 at 2:30 pm
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2010 at 2:30 pm by The Omnissiunt One.)
(August 25, 2010 at 6:09 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: In the story we're talking about, the people followed God best they could, and were as fair as they could be to the Medianites given the situation.
Exodus 21 has the opposite message: http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/co...g-Servants
If a defence is sound then I don't see a problem in forming one.
This link doesn't answer anything, as far as I can see. It just says that servants were an 'emblem of that bondage to sin, Satan and the law', whatever the hell that means. Your defence isn't sound, because an omnipotent god can't be defended on grounds of necessity, or the lesser of two evils. As I said, God doesn't have to kill anyone.
Fr0d0 Wrote:Secular humanism is people wanting their own selfish way.
Not my version.
'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
