RE: Why did god create evil?
November 28, 2011 at 10:58 am
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2011 at 11:39 am by The Grand Nudger.)
1- Thought that this wasn't literal?
2- Sorry, it isn't irrelevant. What did god give us, not a garden, apparently. Anything else we can remove from the list by invoking metaphor? It would be irrelevant if we were going to be punished or rewarded metaphorically, but I don't think that's what you'd like to propose, is it? If I'm to be punished in actuality based upon the metrics set forth by fiction, or by committing "fictional evil" then I'm even more justified in my opinion that the christian view of god is petty and small, in addition to being abjectly ignorant of the differences between actuality and metaphor, reality and fiction. Let's go ahead and imprison authors who use evil metaphors in their evil fictions, or the actors who play mob bosses on TV.
3- What plan? What god? How can I possibly be willing myself to rebel against a plan that doesn't exist, set forth by a being that doesn't exist? Are you willfully disobeying the Havamal?
4- What garden are you referring to, the one you don't take literally? Our choice to rebel, I thought that was something you didn't take literally?
5- Applied correctly? You mean interpreted in the way you would like for me to interpret it, I'm pretty sure. Let me just add here, that the way you interpret this as both literal and metaphoric is another if by whiskey, and I don't appreciate it.
6- No, I'm familiar. You might want to watch your blasphemous tongue though, lol.
7- Religious types can't proceed without evidence? I'm pretty sure I've misunderstood you horribly here.....because if I haven't, you know what I'm going to ask for. We both know you won't be able to meet my request.
8- That's the only place anything about god comes from. God's authority is as mythical as the god in question. See, those stories and tablets can be demonstrated to exist, and anytime someone asks themselves what god wants or wills, what exactly do they reference? Stories, books, and stone tablets. Unless someone has a direct line to the wizard, and if that's the case, I want it as per #7.
Your entire post can be boiled down to, "It doesn't matter if it's true or not because it's true!" If this is the sort of conversation you think that I'm going to continue to engage in you're mistaken. If you want to argue for something try to do it with a little consistency. I refuse to accept your waffling back and forth between the metaphoric and the literal as it suits you when referencing the same narrative. If you decide that some part of the narrative is absurd taken literally then stick with it. If you lose some foundational claim for your faith in the process that's not my problem, it's yours. You should address it honestly rather than wave your hands around like it doesn't matter. These last two posts have been either exceedingly dense or willfully dishonest. That's twice in a row that you've tried to slip inane bullshit by me. Is this going to become a pattern?
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