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(You have to do it out loud and in front of me though.)
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If you guys pray to me, I promise to notice you and pay attention. Which is more than you can say for any god.
(You have to do it out loud and in front of me though.)
If anyone actually cares, this is the muslim answer to how a good God can allow evil and why humanity was created with all its flaws
It's an important question and worth taking the time to watch the video
It's an important question
Only to the mentally ill who need cognitive dissonance to keep on keeping on
Able and willing are fine and dandy until you have free will to deal with. You can tell people the right way to be all day, but in the end you gotta come down and throw some bitches around like rag dolls. We all assume god has the ability to do whatever they want, but we never think they have rules they are forced to exist by. Rules that keep the very fabric of existence from unraveling. In short, if god is capable of being omnipresent, and omnipotent, then our ability to express free will is in danger because they could just force us to be whomever they choose, with how things are setup it makes a lot more sense gods a smoker, drinker, pissed off, and being forced to fix this shit manually while a ton of shit heads keep trying to force everything in the wrong direction. Gods an admin in a free will zone, and has specific abilities they can rely on to resolve issues, but it can take time like cleaning up the streets of rancid goulash vendors. But really, that implies we are all just visiting a zone, and once we leave it gods not god, just an admin in a zone we are no longer a part of.
Safety is that which protects but does not bind
Tyranny is that which binds but does not protect
Why not able and willing, but just doesn’t?
I’m willing to go for a walk today to burn a few calories. Doesn’t mean I’m gonna.
Wouldn't that make you unwilling?
Not at all. Willing means that I want to do something. Unwilling means that I don’t want to do something.
Just because I want to do something, doesn’t mean I will do that thing.
I’m willing to sit here and continue editing this post with examples to further illustrate my point, but I have to go to work soon.
Edit: Oof. Now I remember why I refrained from starting a lemmy account for so long. Appreciate the refresher.
Here's your answer.
You know what they say, the best way to make someone an atheist is to make them actually read the Bible from front to back.
The simple solution is that there is no "evil."
I like the story The Egg by Andy Weir. It gives an example of that idea.
Alan Watts also talks a lot about that sort of thing.
You remind me of my wife.
When we met, she introduced me to lots of short stories that made me reconsider my perspective on things. This was one of them. She still makes me reconsider my convictions whether I want to or not. I sure do love her for that.
I learned fairly early even as I was in Sunday school that I'm a better, more moral person than god. And I'm just a flawed person. So what use is such a god to me or anyone?
You don't know that. You haven't been exposed to the same power that God has. You think deleting the toilets of your Sims is funny at the human level because the Sims don't experience life the way we do. Imagine that scaled 1000x up.
Ask yourself: would you delete the toilet of every man, woman, and child on Earth just for giggles? Based on my past actions in videogames, I know I would.
The continuing existence of my toilet is proof that I know that God is a better person than me.