RE: Benevolent Creator God?
October 6, 2021 at 1:50 pm
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2021 at 2:37 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(October 6, 2021 at 1:12 pm)Ahriman Wrote:(October 6, 2021 at 1:07 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Well, not always, not every bad thing. God supposedly sends plagues and disasters directly, and then there are those pesky forces of evil operating in the world, satan and demons and whatnot. According to magic book, ofc.Because it's a test. If you were issued a test in school, and you failed, would you automatically jump to the conclusion that your teacher must be immoral? You wouldn't do that, if you had any sense. You just failed the test, plain and simple. In this case, your ineptitude says nothing about the morality of the teacher.
Anywho, it's difficult to see why a person following an immoral order relieves the issuer of their own moral responsibility for that order.
It depends on the test. If the test is that teacher infects you with anthrax then the teacher must be immoral. Just as God is immoral when he tests people with plagues and earthquakes. He could give people tests that are not sadistic.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"