RE: The Ultimate Why There Is Evil in the World Thread.
May 15, 2015 at 9:41 am
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2015 at 9:43 am by Hatshepsut.)
(May 14, 2015 at 11:41 pm)Stimbo Wrote: ...on sanctimising.
--- (gerund), in USA with z. A new word. I'll have to add it to my dictionary. As distinguished from sanctifying.
(May 14, 2015 at 11:13 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Really the ball is in the atheist court because it is up to them to show that a perfect world is even possible.
(May 15, 2015 at 1:02 am)whateverist Wrote: "A perfect world": what the hell is that? ... it doesn't mean the non-chirpers need to respond.
The "Best of All Worlds" thing has been hammered to death by now, yet Chad's complaint has a tweet of merit. In particular, to knock omnibenevolence from its pedestal, the atheists need demonstrate the stronger result that God has failed to create the "best of all possible worlds," not merely that he has failed to create a perfect one.
The only thing I see established in the omnibenevolence goings-on is that we humans can conceive of only limited benevolence. Things get problematic real fast if this quality starts existing in infinite measure.
