god must be atheist

I agree with the first sentence. the second sentence is an opinion, and I think it is irrelevant. On the other hand, while developing qm behavour's ma...

Okay, I stand corrected. This question can be decided two ways: analytically, and experientially. First I make a question from your wondering: Can an ...

You are only half right in this demand. Popper's theorem of what constitutes scientific findings is the key here, I think. An a priori proof has not b...

The answer I am inclined to give is that causation, logical linking, and necessary existence for something else all require temporal precedence. Howev...

Only if you insist on free will as unavoidable. Whereas free will is unnecessary, creates evil, and it is the worst thing that had befallen on man.

My mistake then, sorry. I thought that the third post in this thread was wrtiten by the same person as the original post. You did explain a switch fro...

To A. Smith: if you think you can get Bartricks to agree with anything, then you set yourself up to a Gargantuan task. Moses could get water out of a ...

Karlen and invizzy: are you one and the same person, with two identitties on this site? It does not matter to me if you are, but to the organizars and...

Thanks to Campbell, here's one of the many versions of the North American Native deluge story: The Earth has seen an endless rainfall. The water level...

That's the worst part! She's married to my best friend, not to me. And she's better in bed than my thesaurus or my Oxford Dictionary.

Reminds me of an oft-used signage in corner-shops: "IN GOD WE TRUST. EVERYONE ELSE PAYS CASH."

I keep asking her, and she reads, beautiful, interesting, insightful, complex stories, with wonderfully loveable characters, but she reads silently, j...

Yes, it's the playfulness, irreverence, and malleability, so aptly put by you, that is so endearing about Indian culture. The tale I desribed in brief...

The problem with native cultures is that their history has been bastardized. Now it's common knowledge and practice, that men (chiefs) are the leaders...

I found out that the creator of the world in native cultures was not the forbidding giant of a monstrous knower, judge and goodness. Tales about him a...

I am usually very critical of responses to my post, but you hit the nail on the head on all accounts, resounding with my opinion. Because, in a way, l...

Yes, you are right. Each to his own ethics, that's perfectly true. In my value system this topic you discuss belongs under the heading "empathy" and "...

I think you are stuck on "free will is better than no free will". That is 1. not true and 2. I don't understand why you don't consider the arguments a...

A.. maybe. B. try "benevolent god and benevolent world." You left out this permutation, for no reason at all, but maybe? in order to be able to mainta...

you must substantiate this. You haven't convinced me yet that a world full of evil is better than a world with no evil. Please substantiate the above ...

Reminds me of an old joke. The teacher asks the students: "Who was the most intelligent man in history? The pupil with the right answer gets five buck...

They would say "no, I don't want it taken away from me", but if I explain to them that a world of love, harmony, pleasure, abundance of good things an...

And the god that is claimed to be all benevolent, good and graceful... why would being a slave to him be bad? You've never had it so good as being a s...

No? You said that in the previous post. How can you say that this is so and in the next post deny the very same thing?

I am now totally confused by you. Now you say that truth and existence are assumptions?

I think you are losing it. God is evil BECAUSE it gave us free will. He is the alpha and the omega; his creation of free will results directly in evil...

You have no concept of evil. Suffering. If it's suffering, it's evil. So stop complaining about the lack of free will. There are no negatives in a wor...

isn't slavery evil? But no free will, no evil. You were adamant about that. And there is no free will in that hypothetical world. That's one of your c...

Maybe. But that still does not negate the obvious, that god allows evil to happen, something you claimed falsely.

We would still have thoughts, and pleasure; we'd all live in harmony; no evil. Isn't that what the Christian ideal of Heaven is? Free will is responsi...

I agree with the first two sets of claims/assumptions. In that sense, like I said, God is the only one responsible (but not the committer) of evil. In...

Now I am even more confused in trying to understand what you say. I'm still stuck at "Existence and something being true is synonymous". Wouldn't it b...

I agree with you, but I lost you at this part. I went to the movies last night. True. What exists here that "true" refers to? It's an assertion that "...

Right. According to the bible, Satan has free will.) This, however, opens up another can of worms. I claim that the ultimate responsibility for sin an...

Thanks for the referenes on the free will of angels, I'll check it out, gimme some time, please.

This is a goof question but why do you call it ethical? it has to do what with ethics? It has to do with practicality, with usefulness, with power, wi...

This is what I am driving at, too, except I recognize their existence as such. You talk of them as functions of a system; I agree that they depend on ...

Thanks for asking those questions. I copied the list from the post of a fellow user. I shan't name the user, in order to avoid a making a mistake for ...

I wonder if the OP was titled properly. It started with the ethics of eating animals. I think it is more like (on one hand) about the pity we feel for...

If you accept this, then you accept that evility is MORE than just a lack of goodness. Your definition was: You have to choose between the two. Either...

You're right, if you accept that definition. And you obviously do. You must have a neat explanation how Satan had come into existence without being cr...

if you guys are too chicken to tell him, I'll do it. What's his phone number?

What do you call it when you buy a loaf of bread or you look out the window in religious terms? I always thought, because I have been told, that an ac...

What you wrote about substances and physics and definable elements are not definitions; they are separate descriptors of what we consider reality. We ...

Examples: I bought a quart / a litre of milk today. You must always check the blind spot before changing lanes. Don't worry; be happy. When we talked ...

Good point. Well put. The only weaknesses of this definition are its use of undefinable elements, and its obvious subjectivity. I think we can agree t...

I think the best answer I can provide to your quiestion, Bylaw, is point in the above credo. But it's not a perfect answer. Because the universa also ...

SpaceDweller, please don't glide over the following; it is of utmost importance that you read, and understand the following. Is there goodness in a ne...

Brilliant, my dear Watson. You're correct. I did create that word, as well as "evility". I don't have a problem with that; ultimately, all words in th...

I'm forceful, but Bartricks is screamingly and obviously: - rude - illogical - spews nonsense - argumentative - and in my opinion should have been ous...