• Chunk@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    You are an omniscient and all powerful God.

    You create someone who is tortured and killed in a war at the age of 2.

    You are a benevolent God because you helped that person experience the full spectrum of what life has to offer.

    The 2 year old did not acknowledge your supreme authority because you did not give it a developed brain to grasp the concept and so they burn in hell for eternity, never able to fully comprehend what happened to them. Their entire existence is one of suffering and unexplainable agony.

    You are a benevolent God.

  • MajorHavoc@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I took a quick poll of people tied to the tracks, and a majority reported that:

    1. I’m good.
    2. Please get us off these tracks.
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    If god is all-knowing, he knew I would grow up an atheist. If god is all-powerful, he hasn’t done anything about it. So I guess he’s okay with it.

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      2 years ago

      Oh, no, it would be wrong for him to do anything to interfere with your free will! But it’s totally fine for his worshipers to do so.

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        Because you uhh, you have to make the choice? Even though God, if the being is all knowing, and all powerful, could set up conditions for every human being that ever existed to come to choose tobelieve in him, should he actually desire that.

        So either, he doesn’t desire it, can’t do it, or doesn’t know.

        If he doesn’t desire it, it doesn’t matter. If he can’t do it or doesn’t know, then he is not God, and it doesn’t matter.

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    God only kills people he knows will be evil

    Just remember next time you see a make a wish kid that they are literally worse than Hitler

    • Chunk@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Dude blood cancer kids are worse than Hitler. Do you know how many times I’m watching Rick and Morty and I get interrupted by the make a wish foundation? It’s infuriating.

      I mean, Hitler was a bad guy but he did kill Hitler!

      /s

      Holy fuck that post is dripping with sarcastic and it still hurt to write.

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        I mean, Hitler was a bad guy but he did kill Hitler!

        He also killed the guy who killed Hitler, though. That bastard.

    • electrogamerman@lemmy.world
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      Didn’t Hitler killed a lot of gay men? How many gay men has the make a wish kid killed? Check mate, Atheists.

  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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    No, because you define “evil” as “against your will”, and “good” as “anything you do”.

  • aquinteros@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    if only it was just death by trolley… but no no… ists actually burning for the eternity in a fiery pit of lava and ash, you know, love.

  • lowleveldata@programming.dev
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    2 years ago

    That’s what happen when you make up some entity to be responsible for everything including suffering and shits

  • De_Narm@lemmy.world
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    I never got this. They say he is omnipotent, therefore he does not perceive time in a linear way like we do. He knows everything that ever was, is and will be all at once. So there is not much to test here. Either he does the things needed to make me a believer or he doesn’t. It’s his choice and not mine. Free will is meaningless here, even if it does exist, he does already knows my choice before I make it or he is not omnipotent.

    • Jose@lemmy.world
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      “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” - Epicurus