RE: What God's justification for eternal torment?
December 15, 2020 at 9:25 am
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2020 at 9:31 am by The Grand Nudger.)
-and that's the rub. When we make a cognitivist statement about something we insist could be provably true (in this life or the next) we have also tacitly accepted that the same statement could be provably false. That's a requirement of cognitive propositions. That they be capable of being true or false. Not just true.
The soul forge as a cognitive proposition, and especially with reference to a gods justification for eternal torment, opens itself up to other cognitive propositions, and to a cognitive assessment of those propositions. If we balk at that, then we can't rationally or genuinely posit the soul forge to begin with.
In this case, even the truth of the soul forges existence might not offer the justification desired. Perhaps the operator of the forge is making weapons. Maybe we're meant to be psychotic spiritual bombs. Or maybe no one is running the forge (either ever, or anymore), and it's chewing up life unattended to no specific end or purpose.
The soul forge as a cognitive proposition, and especially with reference to a gods justification for eternal torment, opens itself up to other cognitive propositions, and to a cognitive assessment of those propositions. If we balk at that, then we can't rationally or genuinely posit the soul forge to begin with.
In this case, even the truth of the soul forges existence might not offer the justification desired. Perhaps the operator of the forge is making weapons. Maybe we're meant to be psychotic spiritual bombs. Or maybe no one is running the forge (either ever, or anymore), and it's chewing up life unattended to no specific end or purpose.
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