Posted by alexandra_k on September 28, 2006, at 3:18:35 [reposted on September 29, 2006, at 23:03:50 | original URL]
In reply to Re: I feel better now... Michael83 » alexandra_k, posted by Michael83 on September 28, 2006, at 0:49:37
> if there is contradictory, bad, false, unbelievable, or unreasonable information...
maybe that comes of taking the bible literally instead of metaphorically?
> How can a perfect God create an unjust system/religion?
maybe he just let the translators corrupt it...
but then you get the problem of evil.
i think the problem of evil if fatal. i think the problem of evil shows that it is not logically possible that god (an all loving, all knowing, all powerful agent) exists, hence it is not actual that god exists (hence god does not exist)
but there have been numerous theodicies (defences) of that conception of god in the face of the problem of evil...
apparantly philosophers (who study such things) are split down the middle regarding the existence of omni-god. so... who knows.
i just... find that notion of god doesn't help me understand, explain, or find meaning that i can't get from alternative explanations. and so... i have no use for the concept of god.
but it is an individual decision, i guess...
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