RE: Atheism, Gnosticism & the Problem of Evil
March 5, 2021 at 8:05 am
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2021 at 8:09 am by The Grand Nudger.)
In fairness to pantheism - that's not The Pantheistic View. It's our boy Mac's. Even moral realists don't believe in objective natural evil as described. Waves are not moral agents - completely unrelated to beliefs in gods, which posit divine forces that are moral (and generally moralizing) agents. Agency is what puts a god on the hook for things that a wave would skate on - same with man and waves.
A lack of agency would undermine the applicabiity of the term theistic on a fundamental level. It's a personal property, the defining feature of that category of gods.
A lack of agency would undermine the applicabiity of the term theistic on a fundamental level. It's a personal property, the defining feature of that category of gods.
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