(October 2, 2016 at 12:58 am)robvalue Wrote: The thing to remember is that the often posited all powerful God can do things using any method he sees fit. So if he achieves something by torturing and killing infants, he's choosing that method over an infinite number of obviously less cruel and barbaric ones.
Why? You can't simply say he has a reason we don't understand, because whatever is supposedly achieved by this could be done another way.
Drop the ludicrous "all powerful" thing, and you then have a "he's doing his best, can't save them all" argument.
God can do what he wants and call it moral? So can any fascist dictator. He can stick it up his holy arse. At least human dictators can use the means-to-an-end argument, because they're rather less powerful.
Sounds like a capricious God.
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I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
