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Originally Posted by willravel
Everyone is human, so why have the word?
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So we can argue about what it means, of course.
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Why would I use a different meaning of evil for god?
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I can't make sense of this sentence.
It doesn't take much imagination to conceive of a god who's attitude towards humans is "hey, humans, some things are evil, don't to them because they make your already fucked up situation worse". This attitude doesn't say anything about whether that particular god feels motivated to act in accordance with that attitude itself. Maybe god is just a hypocrite.
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God letting bad things happen is apathy, malevolence or inability. Try to name another reason.
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Perhaps god could be considered apathetic, though a lack of action doesn't necessarily imply apathy. I'm not apathetic to the plight of earthquake victims in China even though I'm not doing anything to help them. Their problems are actually quite moving.
Did Epicurus mention apathy at all? I though we were caught up on malevolence.
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Then the matter is settled. Filtherton concedes that the logic is correct, despite his lengthy arguments to the contrary.
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I never argued that the logic was incorrect. I argued that the axioms upon which it is based are irrelevant; they don't apply to many common definitions of god. It's a good example of how an argument can be logically sound
and based on faulty or unsupported premises.
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You have yet to prove me wrong.
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Well, I might have, but since you apparently didn't know what my point was then you might not have been able to see it when I proved you wrong.