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By: fenchurch

fenchurch — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:12:49 +0000

Um, does anyone actually believe this argument?

I think everyone has the capacity to evaluate the good from the better, and the beautiful to the beautifuller.

And, where was the free will involved of tragedies like the tsunami, the earthquakes, infant mortality, etc.?

By: Limulus

Limulus — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:11:20 +0000

Heh. That reminds me of an interesting essay at http://www.dpjs.co.uk/god.html titled “God Must Be Evil (If It Exists)”

By: Ben 2

Ben 2 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:51:21 +0000

And since you’ve already got a “Ben” I’ll call myself Ben 2.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:49:33 +0000

I know that if G_d’s out there He/She/It would hate me for this but the whole God=good thing was mostly intended to flatter G_d (and yes I’ve temporarily taken up the whole Jewish editing-out-the-vowels custom). The fact is that most people can’t except an Allmighty who like us embodies both good and evil, which is really not that complicated. I saw one Christian website argue that G_ d= Good means “Good by His own standards for Himself” which can mean anything.

By: akita

akita — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:00:56 +0000

None of the gods ever existed except in the minds of the fearful.

By: Nik

Nik — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:50:03 +0000

great cartoon. heckuva job, author.

By: Toast in the machine

Toast in the machine — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:18:21 +0000

Indeed Hobbes. Before you even get to the ‘Problem of evil’, I can’t see any way logically a being could be both omniscient and omnipotent.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:02:36 +0000

This is one of the best religion cartoons I’ve seen in a while.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:57:44 +0000

So if I read this right, prisons are blasphemous, because by locking someone up in prison we’re depriving them of their free will to choose to do evil, thus going
against god’s will? Hmm, I’ll have to try that one next time I get arrested . . .

By: Hobbes

Hobbes — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:57:13 +0000

Great discussion! One more thing: Yahweh was supposed to have changed his mind that he “made man,” and thus decided to kill them all via flood (ala Noah, Utnapishtim, etc).

This question, here, is: How can an omniscient god change his/her mind?

This, too, is self-contradictory.