(July 5, 2015 at 2:45 pm)loganonekenobi Wrote:(June 20, 2015 at 1:29 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Take your pick:
1) Because god is an idiot and cannot tell who is worthy of heaven and who isn't without testing people on earth.
2) Or god is incompetent and cannot properly make people without the earth.
3) Or god is evil and enjoys torturing people.
4) God does not exist.
For those who need it, with 1, god is not omniscient. With 2, god is not omnipotent. With 3, god is not perfectly benevolent.
hmmm that sounds very.... Greek sir
I think it pretty well covers the options for responding to the OP. Of course, we can expect that religious fanatics will pretend that they have an answer that does not make their god look bad. That is done with obfuscation and deceit. The usual tools of religionists.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
