Contradicting natural laws do not contradict logical laws stupid.
Unironically how do theists respond to this?
Jason Smith
Hunter Powell
Doing good is only good if it's freely chosen. If you donate a million to charity because someone points a gun at your head, it's good for the people who get the money but it's not a good deed on your part. To be able to do something truly good, you have to be able, in principle, to do evil as well. Therefore, for the possibility of good to exist, people have to have free will, which by definition is unpredictable, even for an omnipotent being - just as well as an omnipotent being couldn't square a circle etc. And this possibility inevitably entails the possibility to do bad or evil. So evil, or at least the choice to do evil, is necessary for good to exist. Otherwise the human race would just be a vacuous mass, devoid of any value.
Cooper Perez
How so?
Ryder Kelly
What? No.
A ‘moneyed Aristocracy’ in the sense Tocqueville uses it, is essentially the transitional state from an Aristocracy to Democracy (in some ways Feudalism to Feudalism with monetary credit to Commercialism with monetary credit basically). Some states negated this transitional phase, others like England embraced it, staying with a constitutional monarchy for quite some time thanks to the likes of real intellectuals like Edmund Burke. :3
Henry Jackson
>if god real why bad things habben
Isaiah Garcia
He isn't malevolent, he is allowing us to be free.
Julian Hill
The first part of this essay is the best answer(from a Christian afaik)
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Ayden Smith
why is epicurus referring to a single god as "he"?
the greeks had many gods
Julian Gray
So if I'm understanding correctly, god can't predict human behavior perfectly, and thus this is resolved by assuming a nigh omniscient god?
Elijah Lee
I would respond that despite that meme quote, Epicurus believed in One God.
" First believe that God is a living being immortal and happy, according to the notion of a god indicated by the common sense of humankind; and so of him anything that is at agrees not with about him whatever may uphold both his happyness and his immortality. For truly there are gods, and knowledge of them is evident; but they are not such as the multitude believe, seeing that people do not steadfastly maintain the notions they form respecting them. Not the person who denies the gods worshipped by the multitude, but he who affirms of the gods what the multitude believes about them is truly impious. For the utterances of the multitude about the gods are not true preconceptions but false assumptions; hence it is that the greatest evils happen to the wicked and the greatest blessings happen to the good from the hand of the gods, seeing that they are always favorable to their own good qualities and take pleasure in people like to themselves, but reject as alien whatever is not of their kind. "