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Thinking that framing God as a contradiction will convince people not to believe in it is naive. People have been saying the same things for 2,000 years. The o
by forthefuture 10y ago
Thinking that framing God as a contradiction will convince people not to believe in it is naive.
People have been saying the same things for 2,000 years. The only development is that we can say it's been longer now.
- olavk 10y agoJust as there is lots of suffering and injustice in the world, there is also copious beauty and happiness and love. So framing God as "evil" is just as problematic as painting him as "good". Both positions forces you to ignore or rationalize away large parts of reality. Edit: Oh, you edited your comment to say something different. I guess this comment doesn't make a lot of sense as an answer now.
- forthefuture 10y agoYeah sorry I can't edit it again now. I editted because the reason I used "evil / unreal" was because those are typically the traits given to a God to illustrate contradiction. And as religion is intrinsically overflowing with contradictions they aren't a particularly compelling way to argue against it.
- olavk 10y agoOh I totally agree about that.