I am always fascinated by people who believe this: "I can't see it, so therefore it does not exist" (which is, I know, I highly simplified form of what you just posted). Lack of evidence for...
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I am always fascinated by people who believe this: "I can't see it, so therefore it does not exist" (which is, I know, I highly simplified form of what you just posted). Lack of evidence for...
I'm hard-pressed to see how my statements are "moral judgments." Number 1 deals with the reality that any judgment upon God should be based upon our knowledge of Him. That knowledge comes from the...
Cake.
Justice, or mercy?
If free will does not exist, then truth cannot exist. If we do not freely choose our words/thoughts and they are merely the by-products of psychological/biological/chemical/sociological forces, then...
Most attacks against God's goodness come in the form of this rather simplistic idea: "God is good, therefore nothing bad should ever happen to me or anybody else." That idea reveals a number of...
Such a "God" is of no use whatsoever then.
You're not "breaking" anything to me I've not already heard before, and you're certainly not informing me of any "facts," Alex - you're passing on assumptions and speculations about the origin of the...
The point is this: you may contend that people would be better off without religion; I contend that they would be worse without its mitigating influence. Most major religions advocate social...
I believe the thread question was "Did God create evil?" God created nothing evil; He created beings with moral free will who could chose evil if they so desired. Once sin entered the world, it...
PS - as well, "evidence" is a tricky thing because what you and I are arguing cannot be factually "proven." You have a list of examples of misbehavior by various religions - but the only way to...
What kind of "evidence" would you like? Do you need me to go find/document the countless community/charity actions that churches have taken through the years? Do you need me to cite examples of...
History bears out the reality that human beings really cannot be "good" on their own. The 20th century - the one where God largely ceased to be a large influence - was the most violent, possessing...
It is fully illogical for men to "create" that which benefits nobody. What appears "bondage" to some is in actuality freedom. As I posted above, nobody is really "free" - we all seek something to...
The being you describe as "God" here has nothing to do with the Being described by the Bible. You might wish to re-read the primary source of our understanding of Him a bit more closely because...
I wish this were true. CS Lewis argued in his book The Screwtape Letters that the two most dangerous things we can do is to a) take Satan lightly, or b) to cease to believe that he's real. Both...
I appreciate your honesty here. This has less to do with "scholasticism" than it does the foundation of our claims as to the character of God. The different religions that exist do so largely...
Freedom is the condition of being able to exercise one's free will. I am free to chose all my behaviors except those that sustain my life (eating, breathing, drinking, sleeping). Those behaviors...
Thanks for the clarification.
Got proof? In the world of literary analysis, we generally back up assertions with evidence from the text...
"Taming" is a farce - just as "Married With Children" and many other sit-coms on TV are farces. As such, when Al Bundy gets tossed out of a window and we see him land in the back yard from the...
The problem here, Ana, is that you make good and evil things that are "outside" of God - as if they have existence independent of Him. The Bible makes it clear that God has no traffic with evil -...
Well, don't mince any words here, fella. Some of us aren't that impressed with your take on this topic either...
Again, not sure who made you the arbiter of what is sensible or not - the...
There is only one God, Blaze. The so-called "universal God" IS the Christian God as far as I'm concerned. Muslim's view Allah as the "universal God" and Jews view Yahweh as the "universal God."
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That's interesting; such a belief suggests that the locations are physical and therefore exist somewhere. Where might these places be? As well, without a moral-willed creator, why should such...
Most wars are fought over real estate. The largest body counts of the 20th century were generated by atheist regimes (Stalin, China, Pol Pot).
Religion is a necessary evil because people cannot...