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Originally Posted by filtherton
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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Yes, that would make god a hypocrite. Maybe that can be the last line of our revised riddle.
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Originally Posted by filtherton
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.
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Do you have the power to save all of them?
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Originally Posted by filtherton
Did Epicurus mention apathy at all? I though we were caught up on malevolence.
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Apathy could be implied in malevolence.
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Originally Posted by filtherton
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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Maybe you should list all the common definitions of god, from most common to least common. I mean, I listed the Bible verses.