RE: Why did god create evil?
December 7, 2011 at 7:38 am
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2011 at 7:39 am by Epimethean.)
You need to read your Joseph Campbell. Man absolutely produced god. What we have done since has been a joke we've been playing on ourselves and will continue to tell as long as we are afraid of the unknown. God is conceptually knowable, and the massive set of flaws in the concept are easily traced back to ... his earthly creators. You are arguing from a top down perspective, and conflating ignorance with stupidity: The former is a condition can be cured in the absence of the latter, and time and memetic evolution are showing this. Unfortunately, the latter condition is persistent through genetics reinforced with bad memes, and the god meme is one of the worst. That said, we have cured many diseases, so in time, even this one may be eradicated.
You suggest that the "soul" is unfathomable. That puts us at opposite ends of this discourse. Since the texts are man-made and man-sourced, those who do search them without positing an "O God" premise tend to find the limits to be mental, not supernatural.
You suggest that the "soul" is unfathomable. That puts us at opposite ends of this discourse. Since the texts are man-made and man-sourced, those who do search them without positing an "O God" premise tend to find the limits to be mental, not supernatural.
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