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The ultimate cop-out. Anything good? God. Anything bad? Free will. Nevermind, like, children with leukiemia.
I don't see how the opposite is not correct: god gave us the means to do evil, that we couldn't do without him. But it is the free will of evil people that turns the ability into reality
I'm sure the babies is Sodom and Gamorah really had it coming.
I'm sure the babies of the Cannanites when Moses and the Israelites were told to genocide them really had it coming.
I'm sure all the babies that died in Noah's Flood really, really had it coming.
You're not going to convince anyone on an Atheist thread, because we've heard the dogma before and have used logic and reason to come to our own conclusion instead of blindly having faith. Ironic that you're encouraging blind faith while trying to sprinkle logic into your argument.
Both people you mentioned are humans. According to the bible, they are both evil because all humans are born into sin.
You also cannot say all good things are from God for so so many reasons. But the most obvious one is that you don't know god, and you don't know their intentions. What we DO know is that either evil came into existence without God, and God isn't powerful enough to stop it. Or god allowed it to exist. Or god created it themselves. So which one is it? Also, god has free will so why is their free will good but ours is evil?
Are you by any chance familiar with Stockholm Syndrome?
You're on an atheist board, preaching...
I hate the greedy, destructive society we're in, but I also see how people have leveraged faith as a platform to make things the way they are.
Nice strawman.
No I reject the imperialism, but am powerless against it alone. Human rights are important, and the concept of every vote counting? Seems solid, too bad popular vote lost in the U.S. election a lot lately
Dictators are awful, and they lied about their parties intentions. Do you not realize... they were lying fascist dictators?
Are your legs tired? You've been jumping to a lot of conclusions.
I suppose we could always just pray harder.
I’m sure that’ll work… despite having done nothing to rectify anything in the past.
Your god also demanded genocide on more than a few occasions. What has that got to praying cancer away until the cancer kills you?
As for the efficacy of prayer… are you really going to sit here and tell me that praying about issues has ever done a lick of good, compared to working to resolve the issue?
If prayer was effective at anything, don’t you think we’d have solved world peace by now? World hunger? Miracles would be dime a dozen. It’d be the cure for cancer.
Or are you going to suggest we’re just not praying hard enough? (Well I’m not. Even if mythical sky daddy existed, I wouldn’t worship a being that gaslights the fuck out of people like that.)
So do you thank God when the doctor fixes you, or do you thank the human who actually relied on science, and other existing, real philosophies, and sciences, to you know... Actually fix you?
Prayer and God have no place in society. Have trust and faith in your fellow humans, and we may all actually stop hating each other one day.
My assumptions? Or 18 years of life being told that by evangelicals +3 years seminary.
Sorry, but you’re glossing over plenty of other instances, including the entire book of Job (whose entire purpose is to gaslight the fuck out of you.)
Edit: james 5:14. actually, here's the whole text of James chapter five, cuz, really, context is important... instead I'll just add empphasis for the specific points here.
Famines have been around for a lot longer than humans, as have causes of faminine, such as blight and volcanic winter.
And whatever free will we have (whether God-given or otherwise) isn't enough to overcome our instincts for dominance hierarchy and exclusionism, which figures into the (decades old) bullying crisis, An Oklahoma official calling Nex Benedict filth (and their kind, all trans gender persons, I infer). It also keeps billionares from using their ill-gotten gains to actually engage in large public-serving projects without turning them into capitalist enterprises.
As Stephen Fry noted, bone cancer in children is a pretty dick move. Unlike the plot armor (or tone armor) of our stories, children are disproportionately represented in mortality of disasters and epidemics. If God created everything then God is responsible for everything.
For us naturalists, on one hand we're captains of our own destiny: only we can reach for the stars and cure famine and warfare. On the other hand you can endeavor to teach a dog calculus and run head first into upper limits, and so it might be with us naked apes. As much as we want to imagine ourselves as galactic civilization material, we may just be simple hunter gatherers trying to bat out of our league.
And when we perish from pollution, disaster and ultimately famine, our gods die with us along with our mathematics and symphonies.
I totally agree with this and I don't even believe in a god. Because if a god did exist, he's still the root of all evil in us since we were made in his image. Wouldn't be human suffering if humans didn't exist.
Think again.
I've thought about it plenty, thanks.
Why do you think this? Why do you assume these to be given?
Because the same problems reoccur time and again, and we don't try anything new. You might be able to point to an outlying incident, but that doesn't change the trend.
There might be a solution in sociology. The same science that shows us voters will vote to harm rivals sooner than they'll vote to help themselves out. The same science that shows how and why people spend their rent money on microtransactions and bad bets. The same science that shows how a nation go from detaining degenerates to mass execution in a matter of a couple of years.
We might work out a trick to get our school administrators to rethink funding massive contact sports programs rather than school lunches, but for the time being, we don't have that, and we're not figuring it out, and then there's people like you turning to scripture like homeopathy. You might say one person sinning is a choice, but when hundreds of millions behave contrary to their best interests, that's a flaw in the system.
And that's before we look at the specific history of how Christianity was repurposed into the pro-America, pro-capitalist, pro-property ideology that has elected officials disparaging dead high-school students.
But feel free to expect miracles in the future, if that's what you need to do. I'll base my expectations on the common behavioral trends, not the outlying data points. It'd be nice if I'm pleasantly surprised, but I don't expect it.
I'm atheistic myself, but I agree with you that much of what causes such horrific outcomes is the result of shitty humans doing shitty things to each other.
An "all loving" god would let people die like flies.